A group of U.S. Democratic lawmakers on Monday criticized Goodyear Tire & Rubber...
) for refusing to let them visit its Mexican plant, and said poor conditions there raised questions about Mexican labor reforms seen as key to ensuring passage of a new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement.
“We are ... disappointed that an iconic American company like Goodyear .... is failing to provide its workers in Mexico with basic labor rights that are recognized internationally and under Mexican law,” Representative Earl Blumenauer, chairman of the trade subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee, and three other Democrats wrote in the letter.
No immediate comment was available from Goodyear on the letter. On Friday it said the need to train and certify workers, and pressure to achieve full production capacity by the end of year, meant it was able to host only “limited outside visits.”
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