One big victory for Democrats and labor in the new North American trade deal is that the U.S. can impose stiff penalties on Mexican factories if they fail to uphold union rights
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
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