18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies · Minor
Have future FTAs protect workers’ organizing rights from employer interference
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Printed page 613 18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies
“For future FTAs, the USTR should replicate the labor provisions of USMCA, especially the provisions to: … Protect workers’ rights to organize and participate voluntarily in a union without employer interference or discrimination.”
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No new free trade agreement has been concluded, and so none protects workers' rights to organize free of employer interference. The two trade agreements implemented by executive order in the window contain no labor provisions.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
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Research notes
- Negative search: chapter log, Cluster negative search — the trade asks (#1692, #1693, #1694, #1695, #1696).
- This is the third of the three USMCA labor provisions the Mandate lists on page 613 (#1692, #1693, #1694). They are leveled together and identically because one instrument — a future FTA with a USMCA-style labor chapter — would answer all three, but they are kept separate because each names a distinct provision that could be delivered without the others.
- Action
- create
- Object
- Worker organizing-rights protections in future free trade agreements
- ID
- 1694