<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><a href="https://teamster.org/news/2018/09/nafta-consensus-needed-labor-dairy-dispute-settlement-issues" style="color: purple; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">https://teamster.org/news/2018/09/nafta-consensus-needed-labor-dairy-dispute-settlement-issues</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><span style="font-family: 'Arial,Bold'; font-size: 20pt;" class="">TEAMSTERS: NAFTA CONSENSUS NEEDED ON
LABOR, DAIRY, DISPUTE SETTLEMENT ISSUES</span><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial,BoldItalic'" class="">Hoffa, Laporte Say </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial,BoldItalic'" class="">Workers’ Concerns Must Be Put Front</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial,BoldItalic'" class="">-and-Center in Any Agreement
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">(WASHINGTON) </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">– </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">The following is a joint statement from Teamsters General President Jim
Hoffa and Teamsters Canada President François Laporte in response to outstanding issues
that U.S. and Canadian trade representatives must hash out to ensure that a new North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a deal that works for workers.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">“</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">As negotiators eye the finish line for replacing NAFTA, it is time for parties on both sides to
reach consensus on the remaining issues that are holding up completion of the pact. We
reiterate that this must be a trilateral agreement to enjoy the support of the Teamsters. Any
compromises, however, must put the needs of workers across the continent first instead of just
further lining the pockets of big business.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">“</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">To start, labor rights provisions included in the Labor Chapter must protect workers and their
ability to organize with independent unions, and must be enforceable. North American families
deserve the dignity that fair wages and working conditions bring.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">“</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">Additionally, the U.S. and Canada must create a mutually beneficial landing zone where they
can come to terms on dairy and dispute settlement. For the U.S., that means compromising
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">when it comes to Canada’s dairy market and supply management </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">system. Meanwhile, Canada
must not allow its views of the current U.S. administration to cloud its judgment and should
drop its demand to preserve Chapter 19 dispute settlement.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">“If all this is done, NAFTA 2.0 can become an agreement that lifts up North American workers
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">and, therefore, can be supported by the same unions that have opposed the original deal and
its expansion in other free trade pacts for over 20 years.</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">”
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.4 million
hardworking men and women throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Visit
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ADDRESS FREIGHT RAIL STAFFING CONCERNS
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial,BoldItalic'" class="">Hoffa, Laporte Say Continent-Wide Deal I</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial,BoldItalic'" class="">s Necessary to Garner Union’s Support
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">(WASHINGTON) </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">– </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">The following is a joint statement from Teamsters General President Jim
Hoffa and Teamsters Canada President François Laporte in response to ongoing North
American Trade Agreement (NAFTA) reform discussions taking place in Washington now
between U.S. and Canadian trade representatives and the need for a trilateral agreement.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">“</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">The Teamsters are encouraged to see U.S. and Canadian representatives sitting down this
week and trying to reach agreement on essential outstanding issues as part of NAFTA 2.0.
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">Canada’s inclusion in </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">any revamped trade deal is necessary if the Teamsters are ultimately
going to endorse this pact.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">“</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">Likewise, all North American nations must be included in a freight rail fix the Teamsters and
our Mexican rail union brethren are </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'; color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%)" class="">demanding </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">that would protect the jobs of some 143,000
freight rail workers in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. It builds off an agreement reached by the
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">continent’s railway unions two decades ago in t</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">he spirit of solidarity </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">– </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">that no movement of
employees across borders would occur absent explicit agreement with the unions permitting it.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">“The </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">U.S. Teamsters-affiliated Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen sent a
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'; color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%)" class="">letter </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">to President Trump in July informing him that Kansas City Southern Railway was already
allowing Mexican rail workers to staff trains inside U.S. borders, in violation of federal law.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">“Similarly, Teamsters Canada sent a </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'; color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%)" class="">letter </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">to the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs in late
August calling on Canada to protect its rail members from companies wishing to replace them
with U.S. workers. It referenced the 2015 actions of Canadian Pacific Railway as necessitating
the request.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">“We note </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">that the exclusion of foreign rail crews that the Mexican government inserted in the
original NAFTA is likely to survive into the replacement agreement and therefore we call on the
U.S. and Canadian governments to similarly protect our freight rail crew members. These
workers are members of BLET and TCRC, Teamsters all, and we expect that their existing </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;" class="">collective bargaining agreements will be honored and their jobs will be protected from
unilateral cross-border incursion under any new trilateral NAFTA replacement.</span></p></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 2"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">“The threat to North Ame</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">rican rail workers is real. We urge the U.S. and Canada to make sure
these workers </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">are protected as part of a new NAFTA.”
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.4 million
hardworking men and women throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Visit
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'; color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%)" class=""><a href="http://www.teamster.org" class="">www.teamster.org</a> </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'" class="">for more information. Follow us on Twitter @Teamsters and “like” us on
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