President Durkee Praises Efforts of Worker Champions in Congress
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11 Dec President Durkee Praises Efforts of Worker Champions in Congress

Posted at 15:06h in Congress, Trade, USMCA by

The BCTGM offers our deepest gratitude to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard Neal, and Senators Sherrod Brown and Ron Wyden for their tireless efforts to ensure that the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is a victory for American workers.

“They truly are champions for American workers and stood strong throughout this long process as the labor movement continued to demand a truly enforceable trade agreement,” reflects BCTGM International President David Durkee.

Durkee notes that the renegotiated trade agreement is significantly better than the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and enormously improved from the original proposal from the Trump Administration.

 โ€œWe demanded a trade deal that benefits workers and fought every single day to negotiate that deal; and now we have secured an agreement that working people can proudly support,โ€ said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.

Under the rewritten deal, if Mexico fails in its labor reform program, U.S. enforcement actions will be triggered. A U.S. labor committee will monitor Mexicoโ€™s progress, and if the nation fails to achieve certain benchmarks, there will be punitive action.

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