AFL-CIO EXECUTIVE COUNCIL STATEMENT ON TRADE Without Fixes, We Must Oppose the New NAFTA September 2019 When the new NAFTA was signed, the AFL-CIO warned that we would oppose the agreement without major changes. As we said in our March 2019 Executive Council statement, the labor movement will mobilize to defeat the new NAFTA if […]

Lori Wallach Of Public Citizen On Why We Need To Rewrite NAFTA  (Excellent Video) –     http://bit.ly/2OJGohg        

WHY HAS NAFTA BEEN SO BAD FOR AMERICAN WORKERS? by David Newby, President Emertius, Wisconsin AFL-CIO President Wisconsin Fair Trade Collition Before trying to answer this question, we need to be clear that NAFTA hasn’t been kind to Mexican workers, either. Mexican workers haven’t gained from the suffering of American workers. In both countries, workers’ […]

Deciphering the Commerce Department’s April 2018 Release of Trade Balance Data  Statement of Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Note: U.S. trade data for the first four months of 2018 will be released by the U.S. Census Bureau Wednesday morning. Continuing its previous trend, the U.S.-China trade deficit is predicted to increase […]

The third round of renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement just concluded, and it’s still uncertain whether U.S. negotiators are going to demand the elimination of the contentious NAFTA provision that give big corporations vast powers making it easier for these corporations to offshore jobs and to attack the environmental and consumer safety […]