At the same time, it gently increases the pressure on any new south-of-the-border signatories to recognize the right to collective bargaining. Unions may not deserve special subsidies or regulatory privileges from government, but the days of them being stamped out by government, as was routinely the case in the United States a century ago and is sometimes still the case today in Latin America, should end.
People have a right to unionize. Just as employers have a right to fire people who unionize. Works both ways.
