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WASHINGTON, May 20, 2026 — The IAM Union (International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers) recently joined Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) and 28 co-sponsors on Capitol Hill during the introduction of the Fair Trade for Working Families Resolution, a bold new framework for international trade policy that would put the interests of working people above the profits of multinational corporations.
“For over 40 years, flawed U.S. trade policy has enriched corporate interests at the expense of workers, consumers, small businesses, family farmers, and our environment,” said Rep. DeLauro. “This decades-long failure has manifested in the loss of millions of American jobs through offshoring, and the loss of our domestic manufacturing base to countries like China, where environmental and labor regulations are notoriously weak.”
TAKE ACTION: Tell your members of Congress to support the Fair Trade for Working Families Resolution.
The Fair Trade for Working Families Resolution would:
The IAM has long sounded the alarm on trade agreements that fail to deliver on their promises to North American workers. Those concerns have been borne out time and again, most recently with USMCA, the agreement hailed as a fix to the failures of NAFTA.
IAM International President Brian Bryant wrote a letterurging members of Congress to sign on as cosponsors.
“For far too long, American trade policy has centered corporate interests at the expense of working families and their communities,” wrote Bryant in the letter. “Since 1994, over 70,000 U.S. factories have closed, resulting in the loss of manufacturing jobs—including good-paying union-represented jobs. This decimates the communities that rely on these jobs, while allowing greedy corporations to offshore these jobs to low-wage labor markets, ultimately putting profits over people and pitting workers against each other in a race to the bottom. Our own Union has recently seen this first-hand with the offshoring of Whirlpool jobs from Amana, Iowa, to Mexico, leaving hundreds of workers without a job during an economic environment of great uncertainty and rising unaffordability.
Read the complete letter here.
The Fair Trade for Working Families Resolution recognizes that trade policy must be judged not by the growth of corporate profits, but by its impact on the workers, families, and communities that bear the consequences when deals go wrong.
The IAM represents hundreds of thousands of workers in aerospace, defense, manufacturing, and other industries that are directly shaped by trade policy.
Our Union continues to call for trade agreements with enforceable labor standards, investment in domestic manufacturing, and accountability for trading partners that fail to uphold their commitments.
WATCH: Fair Trade for Working Families Resolution Press Conference
