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Article snippet: Labor unions voicing skepticism about the updated North American trade agreement are becoming a final obstacle to the deal that House Democrats and the White House are seeking to iron out. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and other labor leaders want to make sure that Mexico enforces new labor standards under the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Agreement (USMCA), and that there is a strong system of recourse if Mexico does not. Without such enforcement, Democrats and labor unions aligned with them worry Mexico will have an unfair advantage to compete with American companies. Trumka met with freshman Democrats on Capitol Hill on Tuesday at the invitation of Speaker MORE (D-Calif.), and lawmakers working on the agreement insisted unions and their party leadership is on the same page. “My takeaway from that meeting is, there is no daylight between Rich Trumka and Nancy Pelosi and there's no daylight between the labor movement and the Democratic Caucus on this,” said Rep. MORE (D-Mich.) a freshman and former labor organizer who was at the meeting. Democrats are effectively trying to negotiate terms of a deal with the White House while they also work on a separate front to bring their allies in organized labor on board. MORE is ringing the alarm bell, arguing unions could scuttle an emerging deal. Speaking to Fox on Friday morning, Trump said that Trumka had played Pelosi “like a fiddle.” “I predict she won’t do USMCA because Richard Trumka — who's a good guy, but a... Link to the full article to read more