NAFTA
NAFTA old and new — deals by the rich for the rich
June 20, 2019One percenters like Mick Mulvaney, self-dealing corporate honchos and fancy-pants corporate lobbyists negotiated the deals. Those fat cats claimed they spoke for labor. But when they opened their mouths, only the word profit emerged.
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Steelworkers organizer comes up with great anti-New NAFTA line
June 20, 2019“If ya can’t enforce it, why are ya gonna pass it?” she asks
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Pelosi on new NAFTA: “No enforcement, no treaty”
April 3, 2019House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has dealt a big blow to GOP President Donald Trump’s hopes of quickly pushing his “new NAFTA” through Congress.
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Trumka warns lawmakers: Don’t vote for quickie ‘New NAFTA’
April 2, 2019Even a stronger Mexican labor law, but without enforcement in place, won’t satisfy U.S. workers, or the U.S. labor movement.
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Union officials to Congress: U.S. ‘free trade’ pacts trash U.S. workers
April 2, 2019"It shouldn’t take years to bring a case against a country that allows for the intimidation, harassment and murder of labor leaders."
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