WASHINGTON, July 1, 2020 – Robert Martinez Jr., International President of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), issued the following statement regarding the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) going into effect today: “USMCA won’t stop the hundreds of thousands of manufacturing and service jobs that are being offshored from the U.S. Contrary to this […]
Written by Frank N. Wilner, Capitol Hill Contributing Editor for railwayage.com WATCHING WASHINGTON, RAILWAY AGE JANUARY 2020 ISSUE: When Mexico’s President Porfirio Diaz lamented more than a century ago of his nation being “so far from God and so close to the United States,” he hadn’t contemplated the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which demonstrably […]
The United States, Mexico and Canada recently signed the revised NAFTA 2.0, or United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The deal must still be ratified by all three countries. In the United States, the pact requires congressional approval. Machinists Union International President Robert Martinez Jr. says the deal does not go far enough to help working people […]
By Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for logisticsmgmt.com There appears to be a collective sigh relief among freight railroad industry stakeholders, regardless of the agreement’s new name. Last week, I once again had the pleasure, and good fortune to attend the Rail Trends conference in New York City, which was hosted by Progressive Railroading […]