Executive Council Statement
Tariffs and Trade Are a Means, Not an End
… But the plain fact is that administration after administration and Congress after Congress have clung stubbornly to trade rules that create profits at the expense of good jobs, when the two should go hand in hand. Working people continue … that the newly elected Mexican Congress will enact a law to fully implement the 2017 Constitutional labor reforms and work with independent labor unions toward a new North American trade deal that will lift up workers across the continent. But … words, we’re doing trade wrong. For decades, the AFL-CIO has urged elected officials and trade negotiators to get trade right by putting working families first, not the corporations that are fleeing our shores. We hope that this administration …