Under Trump, hope -- and recommendations -- for the stronger use of RRM

A desire to boost U.S. competitiveness could drive a second Trump administration to deploy a labor enforcement tool more expansively than its predecessor, according to a legal scholar and former trade official who says the use of the tool so far leaves much room for improvement. The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s rapid-response mechanism allows the U.S. to sanction individual facilities in Mexico alleged to be violating workers’ rights to organize and collectively bargain, which were secured under a major labor reform that...