Yet Mexican workers have not benefited from this bad deal. Mexican wages have stagnated in real terms since Nafta was enacted in 1994. The government, employers and the main Mexican autoworkers union, the Confederation of Mexican Workers, frequently collude to maintain a system of “protection contracts” without workers’ consent. Mexico has yet to develop a free and democratic trade union movement, and that’s at the heart of the problem. We must not let this opportunity to fix the broken Nafta legacy slip away.

Source: New York Times July 22, 2017 00:45 UTC