AFL-CIO: Administration’s NAFTA negotiation objectives fall 'woefully short'

The administration’s objectives for the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement are “vague” and “unambitious,” the AFL-CIO says, arguing they are largely similar to the labor provisions in the Obama administration’s Trans-Pacific Partnership objectives. “If the administration is serious about renegotiating NAFTA in a way that raises wages and creates good jobs, it cannot continue to promise significant trade policy changes on the one hand, and produce vague, unambitious objectives in its official communications on the other,” AFL-CIO...