Useful Links on NAFTA and the Labor Side Agreement

 
DESCRIPTION OF HOME PAGE WEBSITE ADDRESS 
Canada NAO http://labour.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/doc/nafta/eng/
Fact Sheet - Summary of the Commission on Labor Cooperation http://iepnt1.itaiep.doc.gov/nafta/3006.htm
List of publications available from US NAO http://www2.dol.gov/dol/ilab/public/programs/nao/publcnao.htm
Mexico NAO http://www.stps.gob.mx/index_12.htm
NAALC LABOR PRINCIPLES [annex to 1996 Preliminary Report on Labor & Industrial Relations Laws] http://www.naalc.org/english/resource/law_anx.htm
NAALC 1996 Annual Report http://www.naalc.org/english/new/anrep96e.htm
NAALC website: Structure And Functioning of The New Nafta Labor Institutions [good summary overview of the NAALC] http://www.naalc.org/english/info/broche.htm
Plant Closings and Labor Rights: A Report to the Council of Ministers by the Secretariat of the Commission for Labor Cooperation on the Effects of Sudden Plant Closings on Freedom of Association and the Right to Organize in Canada, Mexico, and the United States, CLC (1997?)  http://www.naalc.org/english/bookstore/front.htm

Note: click on Next Page to bring up the full report. 

NAALC website: Preliminary Report to The Ministerial Council on Labor and Industrial Relations Laws in Canada, the United States, and Mexico (Dec. 1996). Deals with freedom of association & right to organize, the right to collectively bargain, and the right to strike in each country. http://www.naalc.org/english/resource/lawpree.htm

Note: you have to click at the bottom of each page on the right hand red arrow to bring up the report text in full. For example, the Basic Employment Relationship in each country is summarized on the next page at: http://www.naalc.org/english/resource/law_int.htm

NAFTA & Labor links http://www.zianet.com/irc1/incitra/websites/labor.html
NORTH AMERICAN AGREEMENT ON LABOR COOPERATION (Sept. 1993) http://www.naalc.org/english/info/nalctxte.htm (NAALC website)
REVIEW OF THE NORTH AMERICAN AGREEMENT ON LABOR COOPERATION [Sept. 1997] http://www.naalc.org/english/new/backgrounder_english.html

Note: you have to click at the bottom of each page to bring up the next page.

United States NAO http://www2.dol.gov/dol/ilab/public/programs/nao/main.htm

Compiled by Lorraine Eden, February 1999