Legislative Alert
Letter Supporting U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA)
… Over the past two years, the labor movement, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her allies on the USMCA working group pushed to remedy numerous shortcomings contained in the original USMCA text. The end result is a vast improvement over both the … and meaningful penalties. Developed by Senators Brown and Widen, this rapid response mechanism will allow complaints to be brought against facilities for violating the rights of freedom of association and collective bargaining, including … the copyright safe harbor provision (Article 20.89), that should not be used as a model in the future. Finally, much hard work will need to be done to ensure that Mexico complies with its labor law changes and obligations; and that the United …