Any New NAFTA Deal Must Benefit Working People, Not Corporations

For U.S. working families, trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have been a string of one broken promise after another. The 200,000 jobs NAFTA was supposed to create instead morphed into 700,000 jobs lost and stagnant wages for the jobs that remained. The better deal for consumers didn’t materialize. Country-of-origin and food labeling laws were challenged and environmental standards were ignored.

Now that the Trump administration says it will renegotiate NAFTA, CWA has laid out a roadmap for what this deal should look like when it comes to meeting the concerns of working families.

We are working with allies and pushing for a trade deal that creates good jobs in the U.S., maintains worker and environmental safeguards – and enforces them – and eliminates the private justice system that multinational corporations now use to challenge local, state, and federal laws not in a country’s court system but before a private panel of corporate lawyers.

And we want a fully transparent bargaining process – no back room or closed door deals.

Make sure your voice is heard. Start by signing this petition to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and let him know that it's time to replace NAFTA with a deal that actually benefits working people in all three countries – not just multinational corporations and investors.