Seade: USMCA labor enforcement will improve Mexican migrant worker protections

The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s labor enforcement provisions work “both ways,” providing Mexican migrant workers in the U.S. greater recourse if their rights are violated, Mexican Undersecretary for North America Jesús Seade told Inside U.S. Trade . During the renegotiation of NAFTA, Democratic lawmakers and labor organizations said a top priority was ensuring Mexico would fulfill its obligations to implement and abide by new labor reform laws called for in USMCA. They sought enforcement mechanisms that could guarantee USMCA’s labor provisions would...