U.S. unions lodge first Mexico labor grievance under new NAFTA

The AFL-CIO, the biggest U.S. labor federation, on Monday will file the first petition for the U.S. government to bring a labor complaint against Mexico under the trade deal that replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement, the union said. The AFL-CIO’s petition states that workers at the auto parts plant Tridonex in Matamoros, a Mexican city on the border with Texas, were denied independent union representation in violation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that replaced NAFTA last year. Reuters reports. Photo credit: Paul Sableman/Flickr Argentina’s Fernandez hopes for new, sustainable IMF deal soon President Alberto Fernandez said on Monday he hoped a new, sustainable deal with the International Monetary Fund that would allow heavily-indebted Argentina to develop and take into […]