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Publications & Reports (NAALC)


These publications are available at the Information Room of the U.S. National Administrative Office (NAO). If you would like a copy of any of these publications, please contact the U.S. NAO at (202) 693-4900.

Public Files for Submissions Under the NAALC

  • U.S. NAO "Submission #940001" (HONEYWELL)
  • U.S. NAO "Submission #940002" (GENERAL ELECTRIC)
  • U.S. NAO "Submission #940003" (SONY)
  • U.S. NAO "Submission #94004" (GENERAL ELECTRIC)
  • Mexican NAO "Submission #9501" (SPRINT)
  • U.S. NAO "Submission #9601" (SEMARNAP)
  • U.S. NAO "Submission #9602" (MAXI SWITCH)
  • U.S. NAO "Submission #9701" (GENDER DISCRIMINATION)
  • U.S. NAO "Submission #9702" (HAN YOUNG)
  • U.S. NAO "Submission #9703" (ECHLIN/ITAPSA)
  • MEXICO NAO "Submission #9801" (SOLEC, INC.)
  • MEXICO NAO "Submission #9802" (WASHINGTON STATE - APPLE GROWERS)
  • MEXICO NAO "Submission #9803" (DE COSTER)
  • MEXICO NAO "Submission #9804" (MINIMUM WAGES U.S.A. - YALE UNIVERSITY)
  • U.S. NAO "Submission #9801" (AERO-MEXICO)
  • U.S. NAO "Submission 9802" (CHILD LABOR - TOMATO GROWERS)
  • U.S. NAO "Submission 9803" (ST. HUBERT’S MC DONALDS)
  • U.S. NAO "Submission 9804" (MAIL COURIERS)
  • CANADA NAO "Submission 9801" (ECHLIN/ITAPSA)
  • CANADA NAO "Submission 9802" (MINIMUM WAGES - YALE UNIVERSITY)
  • CANADA NAO "Submission 9901" (LPA)
  • U.S. NAO "Submission 9901" (TAESA)
  • U.S. NAO "Submission 2000 - 01" (AUTO TRIM/CUSTOM TRIM)
  • U.S. NAO "Submission 2001 - 01" (DURO BAG)
  • MEXICO NAO "Submission 2001 - 01" (STATE OF NEW YORK)
  • MEXICO NAO "Submission 2003 - 01" (NORTH CAROLINA)
  • U.S. NAO "Submission 2003 - 01" (PUEBLA)
  • CANADA NAO "Submission 2003 - 01" (PUEBLA)

North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation & Related Program Documents

  • North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation, September 1993
  • North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation: A Guide, April 1998
  • North American Free Trade Agreement Structure and Status of Implementing Organizations, October 1994
  • Mexican Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare, "What Is the Mexican National Administrative Office for the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation?," 1995
  • Canadian NAO, "Guidelines for Public Communications Under the NAALC," 1997

Labor Law - Mexico & Canada

  • A Comparison of Labor Law in the United States and Mexico: An Overview, October 1992
  • A Primer on Mexican Labor Law, 1991
  • Proceedings of the Annual United States Mexico International Labor Law Conference, October 25-27, 1992
  • Proceedings of the United States Mexico Canada Conference on Labor Law and Industrial Relations, Labor Management Cooperation: Legal, Social, and Productivity Dimensions, Washington D.C., September 19-20, 1994
  • Highlights of Major Developments in Labour Legislation - Canada, 1995-1996

Articles & Papers on Labor Law Issues

A. Copies Available to the Public

  • Dr. John Tuman, "Union Democracy and Industrial Relations in the Mexican Automobile Industry: A Comparative Analysis" Report prepared for the U.S. National Administrative Office, U.S. Department of Labor April 1995
  • Kevin J. Middlebrook, "The Right To Strike and Presidential Labor Policy in Postrevolutionary Mexico," Center for U.S. Mexican Studies, University of California at San Diego, June 1995
  • Anna Torriente, "Minimum Employment Standards in Mexico," National Law Center for International American Free Trade, 1995
  • Gerard Morales, "Workers' Right To Organize in the U.S. and Mexico," 1995
  • Gerard Morales et al., "An Overview of the Maquiladora Program," 1993
  • Gerard Morales and Octavio Nuvaro, "The Legal Status of Unions in Mexico and the United States," National Law Journal, December 1996
  • Kevin J. Middlebrook and Cirila Quintero Ramírez, "Conflict Resolution in the Mexican Labor Courts: An Examination of Local Conciliation and Arbitration Boards in Chihuahua and Tamaulipas," 1996

B. Additional suggested bibliography (copies not available for distribution)

  • Robert E. Herzstein, "The Labor Cooperation Agreement Among Mexico, Canada and the United States: Its Negotiation and Prospects," The United States Mexico Law Journal, Volume 3, 1995
  • Jorge F. Perez Lopez, "The Institutional Framework of the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation," The United States Mexico Law Journal, Volume 3, 1995
  • Panel Discussion: "The Challenges and Opportunities Under the NAFTA Labor Cooperation Agreement," The United States Mexico Law Journal, Volume 3, 1995
  • Lance Compa, "The First NAFTA Labor Cases: A New International Labor Rights Regime Takes Shape, " The United States Mexico Law Journal, Volume 3, 1995
  • Joaquin Otero, "The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation: An Assessment of Its First year's Implementation," Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Volume 33, No. 3, 1995
  • Lance Compa, "Going Multilateral": The Evolution of U.S. Hemispheric Labor Rights Policy Under GSP and NAFTA, Connecticut Journal of International Law, Volume 10, Number 2, Spring 1995
  • Lance Compa, "Labor Rights and Labor Standards in International Trade," Law and Policy in International Business, Volume 25, Issue 1, 1993
  • Lance Compa, "Another Look at NAFTA," Dissent, Winter, 1997
  • Lance Compa, "International Labor Rights and the Sovereignty Question: NAFTA and Guatemala, Two Case Studies," Journal of International Law and Policy, Volume 9, Fall 1993
  • Jill Sanner Ruhnke, "The Impact of NAFTA on Labor Arbitration in Mexico 1994 1995," Law & Policy in International Business Volume 26, Issue 3, 1995
  • Betty Southhard Murphy,"NAFTA’s North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation: The Present and the Future," 10:Connecticut Journal of International Law, 1995
  • Ian Robinson, "The NAFTA Labour Accord in Canada: Experience, Prospects, and Alternatives," 10: Connecticut Journal of International Law, 1995
  • Jason Bazar "Is the North American Agreement on labor Cooperation Working for Worker Rights?" 25: California Western International Law Journal, 1995
  • Stephen F. Befort and Virginia E. Cornett, "Beyond the Rhetoric of the NAFTA Treaty Debate: A Comparative Analysis of Labor and Employment Law in Mexico and the United States," Comparative Labor law Journal, Volume 17, Number 2, Winter 1996
  • David Lopez, "Dispute Resolution Under NAFTA: Lessons from the Early Experience," Texas International Law Journal, Volume 32, Number 2, Spring 1997

Safety & Health - Mexico & the U.S.A.

  • Mexican Laws and Regulations Governing Occupational Safety and Health, January 1993
  • Joint Technical Seminar on the Iron and Steel Industry Preventive Systems for Workplace Safety and Hygiene, February 10 11, 1992
  • The Work Environment at Eight U.S. Owned Maquiladora Auto Parts Plants, November 1993
  • U.S. Department of Labor, "All About OSHA," 2000 (Revised)
  • U.S. Department of Labor, Secretaria del Trabajo y Prevision Social, Human Resources Development Canada, "Occupational Safety and Health Laws in the United States, Mexico and Canada," 1999

Conference Proceedings

Other Reports

  • 1994 NAO Annual Report
  • Highlights of the 1994 Cooperative Work Program: North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC), April 1995
  • Commission for Labor Cooperation, "1995 Annual Report," 1996
  • Commission for Labor Cooperation, "1996 Annual Report," 1997
  • Commission for Labor Cooperation, "Preliminary Report to the Ministerial Council: Labor and Industrial Relations Law in Canada, the United States, and Mexico," December 1996
  • Commission for Labor Cooperation, "A Report to the Council of Ministers on: The Effects of Sudden Plant Closings on Freedom of Association and the Right to Organize in Canada, Mexico, and the United States," 1997 (Available at Bernan Associates, 1-800-274-4447).
  • Commission for Labor Cooperation, "North American Labor Markets: A Comparative Profile," 1997 (Available at Bernan Associates, 1-800-274-4447).
  • Commission for Labor Cooperation, " Papers From Seminar on Incomes and Productivity in North America," 1997 (Available at the U.S. NAO or at Bernan Associates, 1-800-274-4447).
  • Foreign Labor Trends Mexico, 1999
  • Employment Practices in Mexico: So Different from U.S. (Hewitt Associates), 1994
  • Foreign Labor Trends Canada, 1993
  • The Informal Sector in Mexico, September 1992
  • The Underground Economy in the United States, September 1992
  • Starnberger Institute "Working Conditions in Export Processing Zones in Selected Developing Countries," Prepared for the U.S. Department of Labor, October 1989
  • Susan Fleck and Constance Sorrentino, "Employment and Unemployment in Mexico's Labor Force", Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, November 1994
  • "International Comparisons of Hourly Compensation Costs for Production Workers in Manufacturing," 1995, Report 909, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, September 1996
  • Social Security Programs Throughout the World 1993 SSA Publication No. 13 11805, Research Report # 65, 1997
  • Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, "Effects of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986": Characteristics and Labor Market Behavior of the Legalized Population Five Years Following Legalization, 1996
  • Report and Recommendations, Commission on the Future of Worker Management Relations, 1994
  • Commission for Labor Cooperation, "Papers From Seminar on Incomes and Productivity in North America, " 1998 (Available at the U.S. NAO or at Bernan Associates, 1-800-274-4447).
  • Commission for Labor Cooperation, "Plant Closings and Labor Rights," 1997 (Available at the U.S. NAO or at Bernan Associates, 1-800-274-4447).
  • Commission for Labor Cooperation, "The Employment of Women in North America," 1998
  • Commission for Labor Cooperation, "Review of the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation," 1998
  • Commission for Labor Cooperation, "1997 Annual Report," 1998
  • Commission for Labor Cooperation, "North American Labor Markets: A Comparative Profile," 1997
  • U.S. Government, Executive Branch, "Study on the Operation and Effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement," July 1997
  • U.S. Government, Executive Branch, "NAFTA Works for America," July 1999
  • U.S. General Accounting Office, "U.S. - Mexico Border: Issues and Challenges Confronting the United States and Mexico," July 1999
  • National Administrative Office of Canada, "Industrial Relations for the 21 st Century: Canada - United States - Mexico Tripartite Conference, " Proceedings, 1996
  • U.S. Department of Labor and University of California, Los Angeles, "The Role of the New NAFTA Institutions: Regional Economic Integration and Cooperation," Conference Proceedings, 1998
  • Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, "Labor Market Effects Under CUFTA/NAFTA," 1998
  • Canadian Labour Congress, "Social Dimensions of North American Economic Integration," 1996
  • Commission for Labor Cooperation, "Income Security Programs for Workers in North America: A Reference Manual for Workers and Employers," 2000
  • Commission for Labor Cooperation, "Legal Background Paper: Protection of Migrant Agricultural Workers in Canada, Mexico and the United States," 2000
  • Commission for Labor Cooperation, "The Future Culture of Mining Safety and Health in North America," 1999
  • U.S. Department of Labor, "Wages, Benefits, Poverty Line, and Meeting Workers’ Needs in the Apparel and Footwear Industries of Selected Countries," 2000
  • U.S. Department of Labor, Secretaria del Trabajo y Prevision Social, Human Resources Development Canada, "Women in the Workplace: Know Your Rights!," 1999
  • Commission for Labor Cooperation, "‘Standard‘ and ‘Advanced’ Practices in the North American Garment Industry," 2000
  • U.S. General Accounting Office, " North America Free Trade Agreement: U.S. Experience With Environment, Labor, and Investment Dispute Settlement Cases, " 2001
  • Commission for Labor Cooperation, "Incomes and Productivity in North America: Papers from the 2000 Seminar," 2001
  • Commission for Labor Cooperation, " Tri-National Conference on Violence As A Workplace Risk," 2001
  • Commission for Labor Cooperation, "Protection of Migrant Agricultural Workers in Canada, Mexico, and the United States," 2002
  • Commission for Labor Cooperation, "Biennial Report 1999 - 2000"
  • U.S. General Accounting Office, "Worker Protection - Labor’s Efforts to Enforce Protection for Day Laborers Could Benefit from Better Data and Guidance," September 2002
  • Commission for Labor Cooperation, "The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation," 2003
  • Commission for Labor Cooperation, "The Rights of Nonstandard Workers: A North American Guide," 2003
  • Commission for Labor Cooperation, "Annual Report 2001," 2003

Child Labor

  • Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, "International Labor Standards and Global Economic Integration: Proceedings of a Symposium," 1994
  • Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, "By the Sweat and Toil of Children: The Use of Child Labor in U.S. Manufactured and Mined Imports," Volume I, 1994
  • Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, "By the Sweat and Toil of Children: The Use of Child Labor in U.S. Agricultural Imports and Forced and Bonded Child Labor," Volume II, 1995
  • Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, "Forced Labor: The Prostitution of Children," Symposium Proceedings, 1996
  • Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, "The Apparel Industry and Codes of Conduct: A Solution to the International Child Labor Problem?," 1996
  • Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, "Public Hearings on International Child Labor," Conducted by the International Child Labor Study, June 28, 1996
  • Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, "Consumer Labels and Child Labor," 1997
  • United States Canada Mexico Tripartite Conference, U.S. National Administrative Office, U.S. Department of Labor, "Improving Children’s Lives: Child and Youth Labor in North America," 1997
  • Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, "Public Hearings on International Child Labor," Conducted by the International Child Labor Study, Volumes 1 and 2, February 13, 1998
  • Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, "By the Sweat and Toil of Children: Efforts to Eliminate Child Labor," Volume 5, 1998
  • Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, "By the Sweat and Toil of Children: An Economic Consideration of Child Labor," Volume 6, 2000
  • Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor affairs, "The Department of Labor’s Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor," 2002
  • Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, "Advancing the Campaign Against Child Labor, Efforts at the Country Level," Vol.1, 2002
  • Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, "Addressing the Worst Forms of Child Labor," Vol. 2, 2002

Labor Laws Available in CD ROM as Reference Materials

The labor laws listed below are available for viewing and printing:

  1. Mexico (Spanish)
    1. Federal Legislation
    2. International Treaties
    3. The Federal Register
    4. Jurisprudence of the Supreme Court
    5. Jurisprudence of the Tribunal Pleno
    6. State Legislation for: Colima, Michoacan, Jalisco, Baja California, Chihuahua.
  2. Canada
    1. Federal Labor Legislation
    2. Jurisprudence
    3. Federal Health and Safety Legislation
    4. Airborne Contaminants
  3. Chile (Spanish)
    1. Federal Register
    2. Federal Labor Code
    3. Jurisprudence

 

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