The AFL-CIO is planning to file labor complaints against Mexico this month under the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement's labor enforcement mechanism, the U.S. union's president said on Thursday.
WASHINGTON - The AFL-CIO is planning to file labor complaints against Mexico this month under the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement’s labor enforcement mechanism, the U.S. union’s president said on Thursday.
Richard Trumka, speaking during a virtual event hosted by the Christian Science Monitor, said one of the cases would come under the “Facility-Specific Rapid Response Labor Mechanism” that could halt exports from individual factories found in violation of labor rights provisions. Prieto, who last year helped organize unprecedented strikes at several dozen manufacturing plants, was arrested in the border city of Matamoros in June and charged with threats, inciting a riot, coercion and crimes against public servants.
Trumka said the ban for Prieto, along with harassment of other labor organizers in the same state, shows that complying with USMCA labor standards “is not going to be easy.”He did not provide details on the specific claims to be made in the cases, which would likely be the first under the agreement’s new mechanism.
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