free trade
RCEP creates world’s largest free trade zone, but where does U.S. stand?
November 23, 2020Some worry about Chinese domination, while other critics lament the lack of provisions for environmental and labor protections.
Read moreSenate approves ‘New NAFTA’ legislation; Sanders and Machinists union still opposed
January 17, 2020The Senate vote to implement the trade pact, 89 to 10, was a bipartisan praise-fest.
Read moreTop AFL-CIO staffer says Johnson’s Brexit pact bad for U.K. and U.S. workers
October 21, 2019The corporate interests that funded the Brexit campaign, plus Johnson, want to follow Brexit with a NAFTA-like “free trade” pact between Britain and Trump.
Read moreCanadian labor union leadership has gone missing during the election
October 21, 2019Labor’s mass, extra-parliamentary political campaigning is too important to be left back in 1988.
Read moreMexico after 20 years of NAFTA: poor and getting poorer
January 6, 201420 years after the North American Free Trade Agreement came into force, farmers and workers in Mexico, the U.S., and Canada suffer from corporate profiteering.
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