free trade

RCEP creates world’s largest free trade zone, but where does U.S. stand?

November 23, 2020 By Amiad Horowitz

Some worry about Chinese domination, while other critics lament the lack of provisions for environmental and labor protections.

Senate approves ‘New NAFTA’ legislation; Sanders and Machinists union still opposed

January 17, 2020 By PAI

The Senate vote to implement the trade pact, 89 to 10, was a bipartisan praise-fest.

Top AFL-CIO staffer says Johnson’s Brexit pact bad for U.K. and U.S. workers

October 21, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

The corporate interests that funded the Brexit campaign, plus Johnson, want to follow Brexit with a NAFTA-like “free trade” pact between Britain and Trump.

Canadian labor union leadership has gone missing during the election

October 21, 2019 By Dave McKee

Labor’s mass, extra-parliamentary political campaigning is too important to be left back in 1988.

Mexico after 20 years of NAFTA: poor and getting poorer

January 6, 2014 By Emile Schepers

20 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.