1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Independent Labor Secretariat for Fair Trade Deals Act . 2. Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that, with respect to the labor-related provisions of all trade agreements, all parties to such agreements— (1) are obliged to ensure all workers in their territory, regardless of the workers’ citizenship, immigration status or national origin, the rights and freedoms guaranteed in the eight core Conventions of the International Labor Organization, including the right to strike, as part of the right to freedom of association; (2) are obliged to ensure acceptable conditions of work that cover all workers in their territory, regardless of the workers’ citizenship, immigration status or national origin; (3) should agree that all workers have the right to receive wages sufficient for them to afford, in the region of the signatory country where the worker resides, a decent standard of living for the worker and family; (4) should agree the work of all workers in the economy shall be deemed trade-related and therefore subject to the obligations of this chapter to earn fair wages; (5) should agree not to reduce labor standards, provide formal or informal exceptions to any employer, or fail to enforce such standards as to any obligation covered by the agreement; (6) should agree that a threat, act of intimidation, or an act of violence against any worker exercising, or attempting to exercise, any of the rights and freedoms protected by the agreement should be considered a violation of the underlying right or freedom; (7) should agree that the failure to investigate any such threat, act of intimidation, or act of violence, or failure to prosecute identified perpetrators of any such threat or act, should be considered a failure to enforce the underlying right or freedom and therefore a violation of the agreement