The Mexican legislature adopted a set of major labor reforms on Monday, a long-awaited move crucial to the passage of President Trump’s U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade.

U.S. congressional Democrats had demanded that Mexico act before they would allow a House vote on the USMCA. It is unclear, though, whether Mexico’s reforms go far enough to satisfy the Democrats’ objections.

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