<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-block gmail-block--drupaltheme-labor-caucus-page-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif"><h1 class="gmail-display-4" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.25rem;line-height:1.2"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font size="2"><a href="https://laborcaucus.house.gov/media/press-releases/labor-caucus-calls-for-stronger-labor-standards-in-usmca-joint-review">https://laborcaucus.house.gov/media/press-releases/labor-caucus-calls-for-stronger-labor-standards-in-usmca-joint-review</a></font></span><br></span></h1><div style="font-size:16px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><br></span></div><h1 class="gmail-display-4" style="font-size:2.5rem;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.25rem;line-height:1.2"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Labor Caucus Calls for Stronger Labor Standards in USMCA Joint Review</span></h1></div><div class="gmail-block gmail-block--drupaltheme-labor-caucus-content" style="font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif"><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><div class="gmail-row evo-create-type" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:flex;margin-bottom:1em"><div class="gmail-col-auto" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:auto;padding-right:0px;padding-left:15px;max-width:100%">November 4, 2025<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div class="gmail-col-auto" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:auto;padding-right:15px;padding-left:15px;max-width:100%"><a href="https://laborcaucus.house.gov/media/press-releases" alt="View Press Release listings" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(5,44,74);text-decoration:none;font-weight:700">Press Release</a></div></div><div class="evo-press-release__body" style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1rem;line-height:1.5;font-size:1rem;word-break:break-word"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">WASHINGTON, D.C.</strong><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>– Today, Labor Caucus Co-Chairs<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Reps. Debbie Dingell (MI-06), Mark Pocan (WI-02), Donald Norcross (NJ-01), and Steven Horsford (NV-04)<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>led 65 House Democrats in a letter urging US Trade Representative Greer to use the 2026 joint review of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) to improve labor standards and address the continued offshoring of good jobs.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1rem;line-height:1.5;font-size:1rem;word-break:break-word"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">“As part of the Joint Review, we urge you to use this process to improve labor standards under the USMCA and address the continued offshoring of good jobs and critical productive capacity so that the Agreement truly supports American workers,”<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">wrote the lawmakers</strong>. “The USMCA was an improvement over the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as it relates to labor standards for workers across North America, but the Agreement was always intended to be a floor, and not a ceiling.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1rem;line-height:1.5;font-size:1rem;word-break:break-word"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">“Indeed, despite those improvements, the U.S. trade deficit with Mexico still increased by nearly 75 percent to $172 billion since 2019 (the last year before the USMCA came into force),”<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">continued the lawmakers</strong>. In autos, the trade imbalance between the US and Mexico has increased by $30.9 billion or 34% between 2018 and 2023. As we approach the first Joint Review of the USMCA, it is clear that significantly more action is needed to address the offshoring of American jobs and to address the race to the bottom in worker wages, rights, and working conditions.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1rem;line-height:1.5;font-size:1rem;word-break:break-word"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">“Accordingly, we urge you to use the 2026 Joint Review process to comprehensively address the issues of the offshoring of american jobs, closing the wage gap, Mexican labor law reform and technical assistance funding, strengthening and expanding the rapid response mechanism, fully enforcing forces labor import ban, cracking down non chinese investments and transshipments in Mexico, strengthening rules of origin and clarifying the country of origin labeling,”<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">concluded the lawmakers</strong>.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1rem;line-height:1.5;font-size:1rem;word-break:break-word"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">A full copy of the letter can be found<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://laborcaucus.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/laborcaucus.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/final-clc-usmca-joint-review-comment-letter-11.3.25.pdf" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(5,44,74);text-decoration:none;font-weight:700"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">here</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box">. The letter was signed by 69 House Democrats.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1rem;line-height:1.5;font-size:1rem;word-break:break-word"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">###</span></p></div></div></div></div>