European and American union organizations have already expressed concern having regard to the development of the negotiations for the trade agreement between the EU and the US, officially launched in June 2013. On March 24, in a statement, the Workers Uniting transatlantic alliance (which has been bringing together, since 2008, Unite, the British union, and the American United Steelworkers), joined this movement to mobilize national negotiators on both sides of the ocean. The alliance claims that the European social model should be brought to the US, not the other way around.
“Workers Uniting, representing three million workers in Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States, insists that a trans-Atlantic agreement strengthen social, labor and environmental rights by raising legal and regulatory standards across all member countries.”
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