The United States Senate passed legislation last week (The Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015) that will make it easier to prevent goods made with forced labor from being imported into the United States. President Obama is expected to sign the bill into law soon.
Yesterday ILRF’s Legal and Policy Director Eric Gottwald presented at a Capitol Hill briefing organized by the AFL-CIO on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) and labor rights, entitled: “TPP: Is it a Gold Standard for Working People?”