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□All student workers
hired for the fall are
required to attend an
orientation to acquaint
them with their new
responsibilities.
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By Kasie Byers
The Battalion
Beginning this semester,
student workers must attend
an orientation before getting
on payroll with the University,
but the orientation sessions
are meeting resistance from
new student workers.
Students who are being
added to payroll for the first
time, or have previously been
paid by the University and are
rejoining the payroll, must go
through the orientation.
The student payroll orienta
tions, which began Aug. 21, are
held twice a day and will contin
ue through Sept. 13. The orienta
tions last anywhere from 30 min
utes to an hour depending on the
number of students attending.
The program was initiated
by the Department of Student
Financial Aid and discussed
with several other de
partments, including
the Division of Stu
dent Affairs, earlier
this year.
Felicia James, as
sistant to the vice
president for student
affairs, said that with
more than 12,000 stu
dent workers, payroll
orientations were needed
campus-wide to inform students
of their importance and responsi
bilities as University workers.
“An orientation is needed for
students to know their responsi
bilities, as well as rights, when
becoming employees of the Uni
versity,” James said. “As student
workers, they are part of the
University System, and they
need to know basic job expecta
tions. It is also important to show
them that, as a worker within
this System, they are valued and
we need them.”
After discussion this sum
mer about the possibili
ties of an orientation,
the staff of the Stu
dent Financial Aid
Department devel
oped the program.
Molly Geor-
giades, adminis
trator of scholar
ships and student
employment, said the
orientation tells student
workers what to expect as a
University employee.
“The purpose of the orienta
tion is for ease of processing and
to let the students know what it
is like to work on campus,” Geor-
giades said. “The entire packet of
paperwork is filled out like at a
gori
real job, and then the rest of
orientation is spent goii
through basic office procedi
and job expectations.”
Students who have
through the orientatioi
though, said they don't see
need for the program.
Marty Zahlenkamp, a
animal science major who
tended an orientation, said
found it to be useless.
“We basically filled ow
forms the entire time, whii
could have easily been done
our own,” Zahlenkamp said
"The speaker at the orienta.
tion touched on the responsi
bilities of working for A&M
little bit, but not a whole lot.’
Anja Dabelic, a junior bioraed
ical science major who was re
cently employed with the Wi
Campus Library, said the orien
tation was hardly insightful.
“We could have gotten the
perwork and done it ourselves.
We are in college,” she said.
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jobs and increased exports to Mexico isn’t be
ing realized — even by many of the corporate
cheerleaders who were eager to see Congress
ratify the pact in 1993, says a new study.
Public Citizen, which lobbied vigorously
against the agreement creating a free trade
zone from the Yukon to the Yucatan, contends
that American workers are feeling the pinch.
Commerce Secretary Ron Brown took issue
with the findings.
“NAFTA clearly has had a positive impact
on U.S. jobs and exports,” he said. “It’s time to
stop playing the Tlame NAFTA’ game every
time there is a ‘shock’ felt in the international
financial markets.”
Public Citizen examined the goals set by 81
companies before the pact’s approval, then in
terviewed company officials this summer to
find out if projections had been met.
The pre-NAFTA promises were culled
from company comments in National Asso
ciation of Manufacturers and USA NAFTA
publications or those made to government
officials and Congress.
Of the 66 firms providing follow-up informa
tion, 89 percent said they haven’t made signifi
cant progress toward fulfilling their job and ex
port projections in the first 20 months of NAF
TA’s implementation, according to the study.
“The real-life evidence after a year and a
half of NAFTA shows quite clearly that NAF
TA is not working,” said Lori Wallach, director
of F*ublic Citizen’s Global Trade Watch.
“New jobs have not been created and a
lot of existing jobs have been lost. And, U.S.
wages are at their lowest point in 20 years
and declining.”
Mexico’s economic woes, prompted by the
abrupt peso devaluation, make it difficult
to assess NAFTA’s impact, critics of the
study said.
"New jobs have not been creat
ed and a lot of existing jobs
have been lost."
—Lori Wallach
director. Public Citizens Global Trade Watch
“Is there some disappointment generally in
the Mexican market? Undeniably, but that
doesn’t mean NAFTA is a bad idea. If any
thing, it means it is more important,” said
Judge Morris, the National Association of
Manufacturers’ senior policy director for in
ternational trade.
The Commerce Department agreed, point
ing out that unlike 1982 — when Mexico’s
economy last suffered a major jolt — the coun
try isn’t slapping new tariffs on imports.
Wallach brushed off criticism that
analysis fails to take into account Mexico’s
nomic problems. “You can’t separate them
— and you shouldn’t because ... this is the
peso reality,” she said.
Reflecting the continued fallout from
co’s troubles, the United States’ traditioi
trade surplus with Mexico has vanished
the first six months of the year, the U.S.
deficit with Mexico reached $8.5 billion.
Public Citizen cited the toy manufai
er Mattel as one example of NAFTA’s
ure to deliver.
In 1993, a Mattel vice president
House trade subcommittee that NAFTA
have “a very positive effect” on the more
2,000 U.S. Mattel workers.
The Labor Department has certified
520 workers at a Mattel-owned facility in
ina, N.Y., were laid off due to increased
ports from Mexico. A Mattel spokeswoman
n’t return a call seeking comment.
“Those companies that we have (surveyed
were the poster children of NAFTA,” Wallacli
said. “Where the hell are the jobs?”
The Mattel workers were among the 38,Mi
people in 48 states who have been certified by
the Labor Department as having lost their jobs
because of NAFTA.
Despite the job losses, trade officials said
NAFTA remains a net gainer for U.S. workers.
Increased exports to Mexico and Canada
support some 3 million U.S. jobs this year, up
some 500,000 from two years ago, according to,
the U.S. Trade Representative’s office.
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