Regional Collective Bargaining in North America

Regional Collective Bargaining in North America: An §alternative for balancing trade and labor §prerogatives makes an analysis of the relationship §between international trade and the protection of §labor rights. It features the evolution of domestic, §regional and international labor efforts,and why §labor standards (or the lack thereof) existing in §today s global economy ultimately fail to protect §workers rights. This work presents the §implementation and effectiveness of NAFTA and its §parallel labor compromise, the North American §Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC). NAALC is §compared with other international labor alternatives §like the ILO and the European Labor §Law. Enlarging the scope and improving the §enforcement means of NAALC, as well as the §implementation of North American Regional Frameworks §negotiated by employer, union and government §regional representatives are proposed to improve§the protection of labor rights in the region. This §proposal is supported with a profound analysis of §the collective bargaining legal framework that is §enforceable in each of the NAFTA countries.