Trade Agreements Must Put Workers First

Trade Agreements Must Put Workers First

Of all the technical flaws in the badly broken international trade system, the one most intuitive to the layman is the race to the bottom on labor. In the global free market, multinational corporations have a strong incentive to set up shop not where labor is most productive but where it has the least power and can be most easily exploited. For nations eager to attract investment, selling out their own workers is a sure path to success, and some…