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’ […]

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 […]

Renegotiating or replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement is an essential step in creating a global economy that benefits working families instead of just the favored corporate elites. The U.S. Labor Department has certified more than 75,000 livelihoods have already been lost to either direct offshoring or displacement by imports under just one since […]