ISDS Case Map
labour | workers' rights
There’s freedom for the bosses to hire and fire at will and to shut down their businesses, throwing thousands onto the dole. But there’s little freedom for workers to strike for their rights.
The free trade deal is now about jobs, except the government has got the number all wrong.
Starting soon, as a result of the firm's drive for higher profits and lower wages, your Oreo cookies will be made in Mexico, not Chicago. And it's all thanks to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Economic modelling demonstrates the gain in economic welfare from the three North Asian FTAs will be modest.
ASEAN governments should consider giving further incentives for expenses incurred by employers in implementing flexible employment arrangements.
North West MEP Afzal Khan says he has received more than 10,000 emails from constituents concerned about the proposed trade agreement between the United States and the European Unions.
The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is not dead. Even though talks failed last month in Hawaii and the 12 countries couldn’t come to an agreement, the last few legislative days left are being used up wisely.
The status quo trade model’s 21-year record of massive U.S. trade deficits, job loss and wage suppression.
Government of Malaysia has proposed several amendments be made to the Sabah Labour Ordinance, the Industrial Relations Act and Workers’ Union Act to allow TPPA to materialise but labour groups are opposed to such measures.
TUC Congress believes that the primary purpose of TTIP is to extend corporate investor rights’ and thus adopted a position of ‘outright opposition’ to TTIP.
