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Unions Challenge Trump to Rewrite NAFTA ‘In Favor of Workers’
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Feb. 23, 2017 | TRADE AGREEMENTS | Backed by a wide array of labor unions – led by the United Steelworkers (USA), the Teamsters and the AFL-CIO, a group of House Democrats have formally challenged Republican President Donald Trump to completely rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)…The pro-worker principles should include the abolition of the secret trade court, called the Investor State Dispute System, now in NAFTA and other trade pacts, and write strong, enforceable labor rights into a new NAFTA’s text, and enforce them. They also include keeping Buy America provisions free from company challenges, putting in strong rules of origin for imported cars and parts, and requiring foreign trucks to comply with U.S. truck safety and driver licensing laws. That last requirement would restrict creaky Mexican trucks and ill-trained, pooped drivers to within 20 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border, a key cause of the Teamsters… wnylabortoday.com
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