U.S. launches first USMCA complaint against GM plant in Mexico

The U.S. has initiated a complaint under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s rapid-response mechanism against a General Motors facility in Mexico for alleged worker rights’ violations, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced on Wednesday, marking the first use of the novel tool. USTR and the Labor Department “a number of months” ago received information via a confidential hotline established by the USMCA implementing legislation from a person who said a GM plant in the Mexican state of Guanajuato was violating...