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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is likely to affect labor movement power in Canada and the US. A thorough analysis of NAFTA's impact on labor movement power must examine its impact on the power resources available to labor movements. Four organizational structure variables that affect power resources are: 1. union density, 2. left party legislative strength, 3. organized labor's unity and coherence, and 4. collective bargaining centralization. NAFTA will increase transnational corporate power resources while at the same time reducing all 4 basic types of labor movement organizational power resources in the short to medium run. NAFTA's net impact on labor movement power resources will be positive if it enhances labor movement mobilization capacity sufficiently to offset the negative impacts on movement power.