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WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 2020 – Owen Herrnstadt, Chief of Staff of the 600,000-member International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), in testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee, asked Congress and the Administration to adopt a comprehensive manufacturing strategy that disincentives outsourcing and ensures U.S. competitiveness with China. “The IAM has been sounding
Read moreTrade talks between the U.S., Canada and Mexico should be reopened to improve the enforcement of labor standards not included in the current NAFTA 2.0 text, IAM Chief of Staff and Director of Trade and Globalization Owen Herrnstadt told Congress.
Read moreFor more than a quarter-century, North America’s working families have raised their voices for better trade policy. The defenders of corporate-dominated trade rules too often portray trade as an end in itself. But trade is not an end, it is a means.
Read moreApril 6, 2019, WASHINGTON — A statement from Robert Martinez Jr., International President, Machinists Union: “The IAM strongly supports the effort by Sens. Brown and Wyden to curtail corporate incentives to outsource work to Mexico.
Read moreDespite some modest labor improvements, NAFTA 2.0 maintains the fundamental flaws carried over from past trade agreements, writes IAM Chief of Staff and Director of Trade and Globalization Owen Herrnstadt for the Economic Policy Institute.
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