Our weekly press roundup of Mexican political stories, including SINTTIA union loses GM plant vote, tarrifs, poverty reduction, electoral reform, Nissan plant closure, education policy, and right wing opposition collaborating with US imperialism.
The President ruled out any financial problems or a lack of resources to pay workers’ salaries, refering to the delay in paying salaries to staff of the public TV station Canal Once.
An interview with Eligio Valdes, General Coordinator of CNTE Michoacan.
Prior to the changes implemented during AMLO’s administration, outsourcing, which in addition to registering workers with social security with lower than actual wages also represented a form of tax evasion for companies, was a growing practice.
Deductions taken from the more than 12,000 teachers for participating in the recent national strike will be reimbursed in the second half of August.
Front members accused Morena of using the proposal to win votes in its 2024 campaigns and now wanting to use it again until 2030.
35 workers from the Mexican government’s new preventative healthcare initiative struck after not receiving any wages for the entire month of June.
A study found Mexico’s ban on outsourcing increased workers wages and reduced precarity, despite ominous predictions from employers who resisted the reform.
Migrant farmworker Maria Elena Valdivia is at the forefront of the fight against the US’ H-2A temporary visa program, a form of legalized human trafficking which provides the heavily exploited labor that creates American agribusiness profits.
An interview with Esmeralda Jazmín Alonso Guevara, coordinator of Casa Obrera del Bajío, where they organize to counter the historic attacks that capitalism has inflicted on Mexico.