Mexican ambassador raises USMCA labor compliance concerns

Mexico’s ambassador to the U.S. this week raised concerns about U.S. compliance with U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement labor rules in the agriculture and “protein processing” sectors. In a letter to Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, Ambassador Esteban Moctezuma “proposed a space for cooperation under the terms established in” USMCA’s labor chapter “with the aim of identifying actions to address the non-compliance of labor laws in certain sectors and States in the U.S. and therefore, fully guarantee the labor rights included in the U.S...