Tai calls on APEC trade ministers to take a ‘worker-centered’ approach

DETROIT – U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai put labor concerns front and center in an event ahead of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation trade ministerial on Thursday, calling on her counterparts to do the same in their discussions about trade policy. APEC has never had “an accompanying worker forum, and I think this is a real oversight,” Tai said before introducing United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain and AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Frederick Redmond to an audience that included World Trade Organization Director-General...