AFL-CIO has ‘serious doubts’ that labor rules in USMCA will be effective

Labor provisions in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, while an improvement over the original NAFTA, are unlikely to make a “meaningful difference” for North American workers, the AFL-CIO said this week. The labor group, in pre-hearing comments submitted to the U.S. International Trade Commission, said the new deal’s lack of “labor-specific monitoring or enforcement provisions (such as an independent secretariat or certification requirements)” were of concern to the largest federation of unions in the U.S. The AFL-CIO reiterated that it had yet...