Regional Collective Bargaining in North America : An Alternative for Balancing Trade and Labor Prerogatives

ISBN-13: 9783639125627 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 276 str.

Hector Gonzalez Graf

Opis

Regional Collective Bargaining in North America: An alternative for balancing trade and labor prerogatives makes an analysis of the relationship between international trade and the protection of labor rights. It features the evolution of domestic, regional and international labor efforts,and why labor standards (or the lack thereof) existing in today s global economy ultimately fail to protect workers rights. This work presents the implementation and effectiveness of NAFTA and its parallel labor compromise, the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC). NAALC is compared with other international labor alternatives like the ILO and the European Labor Law. Enlarging the scope and improving the enforcement means of NAALC, as well as the implementation of North American Regional Frameworks negotiated by employer, union and government regional representatives are proposed to improvethe protection of labor rights in the region. This proposal is supported with a profound analysis of the collective bargaining legal framework that is enforceable in each of the NAFTA countries.

O autorze

Héctor González Graf studied law at the Universidad Nacional
Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). He completed a Masters in Law and a
Ph.D. at Tulane Law School. He litigates in all areas of
employment law representing national and multi-national
companies. He has taught law in public and private universities
in Mexico and foreign countries.