With negotiations over a new free trade agreement between the United States, Canada and Mexico (NAFTA), which had long been viewed as dead in the water, recently resuming, aided perhaps by the crisis in US-China trade relations, trade unions in the three countries have raised concerns over a bill that is currently being discussed in Mexico. The bill threatens to counteract recent reforms in the country which sought to develop true collective bargaining, the best means for unions to even out the competition conditions across the region - an objective sought as part of the NAFTA renegotiation.
Unable to work on all fronts, negotiators in Washington would like to sew up the NAFTA deal in order to begin focusing their energy on China and the so-called “trade war”, stemming from the imposition of customs duties on steel and aluminium imports. Amid the NAFTA negotiations, trade union leaders from the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, as well as Teamsters, the United Steelworkers and United Automobile Workers, have on numerous occasions sought to persu
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