PUBPOL 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: North American Free Trade Agreement, General Idea, Social Dumping
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Afl-cio making nafta work for working people: does the afl-cio call for rules of origin and require inputs from the united states, aflcio promotes a strong rule of origin (roo) to discourage outsourcing to countries outside of nafta. Thus, the strong roos incentivizes production at home rather than outsourcing to places where labor is cheaper (like china) aflcio calls for the auto regional value content to rise above the original 62. 5%. Aflcio wants to make sure that nafta workers are the true beneficiary of the agreement rather than workers in countries outside of the agreement. The general idea here is that nafta trade obligations prevent domestic governments from going with bidders that reflect the domestic government"s preferences. What are the labor recommendations, and how do they want them enforced: recommendations: aflcio"s recommendations aim to prevent a race to the bottom in terms of wages. A main component of this is to enforce a wage floor to prevent.
