If a factory has recurring violations, the U.S. can block the goods made there from entering the country.
Trumka himself acknowledged in his endorsement that the USMCA is “far from perfect. It alone is not a solution for outsourcing, inequality or climate change.” But Trumka said the deal represented a significant improvement to the original NAFTA, which labor has vehemently opposed for the past 25 years.
For Trumka, the son of a mineworker who himself worked in the mines as a teenager before rising to staff attorney of the United Mine Workers and later serving 13 years as UMW president, the USMCA endorsement may be a last hurrah. Trumka is not thought likely in 2021 to run for a fourth four-year term as AFL-CIO president.
Trumka worked closely on the trade deal with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lightizer, and occasionally with Trump, but he strongly opposed Trump's other labor policies, and never passed up an opportunity to say so. In 2018 he enraged Trump by saying, in aThe president replied with a virtual declaration of war.Trump tweeted
Dems are stupid there is no way to enforce like Iran deal . Quotas, point of origin protected jobs . The Dems is as enforceable as Iran deal
Pls not enforceable
SpeakerPelosi THANK YOU for working under great pressure to ensure this trade deal does not cost Americans their jobs.
So you are saying America needs to choose how Mexico runs their manufacturing? Yeah Americans would be pissed if they found out Canada was doing this to the USA.
That is how safe and fair jobs are created. Not by bullying.
Well, if this is what it takes to get rid of López Obrador and his brand of Fidel Castro socialism then these conditions come as welcome news.
Trump wins again
President Trump is the individual who brokered and booked this trade deal not Pelosi all she did was hold it on your desk for over a year collecting dust and after the impeachment dust it off put a couple of shiny little sparkles on it and sent it up, claiming it for the DNC
This has NOTHING to do with Democrats Politico writes the dumbest articles
Thank you realDonaldTrump
Lol how can that be a victory for Democrats? They want reparations for illegals from Mexico, want to open the border, eliminate holding cells, and somehow you want us to believe the dems wanted any sort of punishment against Mexico? Lol
The trade deal is a victory for Pelosi, not Trump
So the WH can monitor labor abuses in Mexico but no word on human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia and NK?