Workers Say NAFTA’s Neoliberal Foundations Need to Be Dismantled From the Left — Not the Right
NOVANEWS
By Jeff Schuhrke, In These Times
Rejecting both economic nationalism and free-market fundamentalism, workers across North America are building transnational solidarity and demanding labor rights for all.
Last week, nearly 60 representatives of unions and civil society organizations from Mexico, Canada and the United States gathered in Chicago for a two-day meeting to discuss strategies for collaboration as their governments renegotiate the 23-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
The meeting was coordinated by the United Electrical Workers (UE), UCLA Labor Center and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, an international civic education institution affiliated with Germany's Left Party. While many Mexican unions are dominated by the government, only the country's more i...