Canada presses US to outlaw "right to work" laws

[Alamo]

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/ne...-laws-as-part-of-nafta-talks/article36160015/

Canadian negotiators are demanding the United States roll back so-called "right to work" laws – accused of gutting unions in some U.S. states by starving them of money – as part of the renegotiation of the North American free-trade agreement. The request is part of a push by Ottawa to get the U.S. and Mexico to adopt higher labour standards under the deal.

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Mr. Dias, whose union represents a broad swath of occupations from auto makers to paperworkers, met on Sunday with Canada's chief NAFTA negotiator, Steve Verheul, and members of the team working on labour matters. He argued lax labour standards in the other two NAFTA countries are bleeding jobs out of Canada.

 

[eldirector]

Bleeding jobs out of Canada. How awful. They should apologize... for bleeding all over us.

The US has been getting shafted by NAFTA for years. It is someone else's turn.

 

[HoughMade]

If Canada actually wants to compete, the other option is granting their own companies more freedom.

...I won't hold my breath.

 

[churchmouse]

But I was to understand that Canada was a Utopia to be modeled after.

 

[HoughMade]

But I was to understand that Canada was a Utopia to be modeled after.

That's what they certainly think...in all their low-population, natural resource funded self-importance.

 

[Thor]

Get out, hosers.

 

[HoughMade]

[video=youtube;zNdJyr4kqpA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNdJyr4kqpA[/video]

 

[ghuns]

Get out, hosers.

What are you talking aboot, eh?

The last watchable movie Michael Moore made...

[video=youtube;EzHAvw1WGkU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzHAvw1WGkU[/video]

 

[pute62]

If only they'd of let all those celebrities come live there after Trump won.

 

[bobzilla]

**** Canada and **** those self important *******s.

 

[Vigilant]

**** Canada and **** those self important *******s.

EggsZachary! Looks like it's time to colonize the Great North, no more America light, lets plant a flag!

 

[bobzilla]

EggsZachary! Looks like it's time to colonize the Great North, no more America light, lets plant a flag!

Actually at this point I'm ready to build a DMZ on both our north and south borders, close every overseas military base and use them to man the guard towers on both borders with orders to shoot on sight. Use our navy to heavily patrol every coastline of the continental US and tell the rest of the world to "figure it out".

While i I know that there are a thousand reasons why this is a terrible idea I'm about done with the outside world in general.

Edit: it would really be nice the next time France or England or Canada *****es about how we handle something our leadership steps back and says "fine. You do it. We're out. Good luck. "

 

[kawtech87]

NSFW

[video]https://youtu.be/GHzGvpYCVR0[/video]

 

[Alamo]

Wait until Canada and Mexico gang up to try to get the US to agree to abridge all those silly state laws like "License to Carry," "Open Carry", etc because... it hurts their economies somehow...

 

[Thor]

 

[IndyDave1776]

Wait until Canada and Mexico gang up to try to get the US to agree to abridge all those silly state laws like "License to Carry," "Open Carry", etc because... it hurts their economies somehow...

If they go that way, it will be a push for an all-out ban. After all, all the money we spend on guns *could* be spend on crap they want to peddle.

 

[Thor]

I think Aguila peddles a LOT of ammo here...

 

[OakRiver]

Isn't NAFTA essentially a trade agreement? If so why does Canada feel the need to interfere in the sovereign affairs of another nation?

 

[IndyDave1776]

Isn't NAFTA essentially a trade agreement? If so why does Canada feel the need to interfere in the sovereign affairs of another nation?

The angle actually under consideration before we digressed ( I know, INGO digress, not possible!) was right to work laws, which exist at the state level and significantly reduce the power of collective bargaining. The more left/socialist a society is, the more power is concentrated in the hands of labor, the less competitive it is with societies which do not feature such a balance of power and money. To their notion, competing with us is like the American citizen competing with the illegal alien. Consequently, they consider this to be a problem to them.