Union leaders reject pulling out of NAFTA

Union officials told Congress Tuesday that despite their criticisms of the North American Free Trade Agreement, they oppose pulling out of that trade deal before a replacement is in place. President Trump has repeatedly threatened to pull out of NAFTA as a means to force lawmakers to approve his U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade.

“We are not there yet. There is still time to fix this agreement [USMCA], to make it so that we are not faced with that possibility,” Shane Larson, legislative director of the Communications Workers of America, told the House Ways and Means Committee Tuesday when asked if he would advocate withdrawing from NAFTA as opposed to approving USMCA or keeping the status quo.