Reichert: GOP Members Object To Vietnam Labor Plan As Union Building
House Ways & Means trade subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA) said last week that the objections by some House Republicans to the labor consistency plan that the U.S. has negotiated with Vietnam as a side letter to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are rooted in these members' belief that the U.S. should not be promoting the formation of unions in other countries. "What some members are saying is, look, we're not about union-building in other countries," he said in a Dec...