The House has passed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement — the replacement for NAFTA, or the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement. The new deal includes stronger labor and environmental provisions. American labor groups have backed the new trade deal. This is AFL-CIO labor union president Richard Trumka.

Richard Trumka: “It’s going to take a few years to begin to reverse the bad and the evil that was done by NAFTA, the harm that was done to our economy and to the manufacturing sector in our economy and to other sectors, as well. So, it’s going to take eight, 10, 12 years for this process to work through and reverse itself. But you never get to the end product if you don’t start somewhere.”

The original North American Free Trade Agreement took effect in 1994, devastating the livelihood of small farmers across Mexico.