Reimagining Trade Agreements for Workers

"Reimagining Trade Agreements for Workers: Lessons from the ...

A backlash against the post-Cold War order of liberal globalization has taken hold in the rich North Atlantic countries. Concerns about wages, working ...

SYMPOSIUM ON TRANSNATIONAL FUTURES OF INTERNATIONAL LABOR LAW. REIMAGINING TRADE AGREEMENTS FOR WORKERS: LESSONS FROM THE USMCA. Álvaro Santos*. A backlash ...

Alvaro Santos - Reimagining Trade Agreements for Workers - SSRN

While labor rights have progressively been included in trade agreements, they have done little to reshape workers' well-being and workplace ...

Reimagining Trade Agreements for Workers: Lessons - ProQuest

Reimagining Trade Agreements for Workers: Lessons from the USMCA. Santos, Álvaro. AJIL Unbound; Washington Vol. 113, (2019): 407-412. DOI:10.1017/aju.2019.74.

Rethinking Policy Tools for Better Labour Outcomes

In parallel, a growing number of regional trade agreements (RTAs) contain labour provisions using a variety of approaches. This includes preambular language ...

USMCA and Workers' Rights - Rethink Trade

USMCA & Workers' Rights · Decades of trade agreements have promoted the outsourcing of jobs to countries where wages are low and workers have no rights. · USMCA ...

Reimagining Trade-Plus Compliance: The Labor Story

In this Article, I posit that the labor enforcement story is part of a bigger problem with trade agreement design. The larger challenge facing ...

Behind the Scenes of America's Free Trade Agreements

USMCA is the first U.S. trade agreement to include labor provisions that serve to protect vulnerable workers from around the world by ...

Making labour provisions in free trade agreements work | etui

Labour provisions were included in 85 of the 293 free trade agreements (FTAs) in force in 2019, but a common verdict has been that they made little or no ...

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Second, corporations are well represented in trade negotiations and have successfully advanced their interests. ... IP protections. Traditionally, worker ...

a multi-faceted typology of labour provisions in trade agreements ...

Since the introduction of enforceable labour provisions in the North American Free Trade Agreement. (NAFTA) in 1994, including labour provisions has not only ...

Advancing labor rights through U.S. trade, programs and partnerships

Our global technical assistance projects strengthen the capacity of governments to enforce labor laws, support workers to freely organize, and galvanize ...

Reimagining Trade-Plus Compliance: The Labor Story

In so doing, the Article seeks to draw attention to the disparity in theory and design in free trade agreements and to make some critical policy recommendations ...

How do labour provisions in trade agreements affect decent work?

Further evidence shows that both the EU and US labour-inclusive trade agreements significantly increase the violations of their rights in ...

Reimagining Trade-Plus Compliance: The Labor Story

While labor rights have progressively been included in trade agreements, they have done little to reshape workers' ... [Show full abstract] well-being and ...

Towards Enforceable Labor Rights in U.S. Free Trade Agreements

Section VI concludes. II. FREE TRADE AGREEMENT LABOR CHAPTERS: PERU AND GUatemala. The history of workers' rights provisions in FTAs is marked ...

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“Reimagining Trade Agreements for Workers: Lessons from the USMCA.” AJIL Unbound 113: 407–12. https://doi.org/10.1017/aju.2019.74. CC BY. Total Page Count ...

A Primer on the Intersection of Labor Rights, Technology and Trade

Historically, trade agreements have done ““little to reshape workers' well being and workplace conditions.” Given that the primary aim of trade ...

REIMAGINING WORKFORCE POLICY IN THE AGE OF DISRUPTION

More importantly, as states work to reimagine their workforce system ... agreements for workers making less than $13 an hour, enabling on-demand work ...

REIMAGINING THE TPP: - Asia Society

The Labor Advisory Committee on. Trade Negotiations and Trade Policy (LAC) worried that the deal would disproportionately benefit. “economic ...