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President Joe Biden is proving he won’t abandon workers anywhere just to guarantee cheap imported goods for U.S. consumers – and that’s good to protect American jobs.
At the request of his administration, Mexico looked into allegations of union vote tampering at a General Motors factory in the state of Guanajuato where, according to newspaper Reforma, some 339,000 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra tucks were produced in 2019.
The allegations point to members of a rival, pro-employer union meddling “through steps such as limiting voting hours and destroying unfavorable ballots,” The Wall Street Journal reports.
Some Democratic lawmakers had been sounding the alarm in Washington about the union busting methods, prompting U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai to intervene, using for the first time a tool called the Rapid Response Labor Mechanism that was included in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement known as USMCA.
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Dec.18.2020
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) came into force on July 1, 2020. Included in the USMCA are stronger labor provisions Congressional Democrats demanded, with the support of the Trump Administration, that were approved on a bipartisan basis during consideration of the USMCA implementing legislation in late 2019. The stronger labor provisions helped secure the support of key labor groups for the USMCA. Together with overall support from business groups, the USMCA set a framework for more extensive labor commitments in U.S. trade agreements. This is expected to lead to more aggressive enforcement.
While no case has been brought on the labor provisions of the USMCA so far,