U.S., Mexico Outline GM Plant Labor Fixes in Trade-Deal First
- Plan is the first to address labor issues under new Nafta deal
- Union has until Aug. 20 to hold vote on collective bargaining
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The U.S. and Mexico outlined a plan to address the denial of workers’ rights at a General Motors Co. pick-up truck plant, the first such strategy under a mechanism in the year-old trade deal between the nations and Canada.
The plan seeks to provide the workers of the facility in Silao, Guanajuato, with the ability to vote on whether to approve their collective-bargaining agreement, or CBA, in free and democratic conditions, and to remediate the denial of their right of free association and collective bargaining, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said in an emailed statement Thursday.