Patrick James, founder of the US autoparts company, has been indicted on fraud charges, while 7 plants are closed and more than 4,000 Mexican workers are now jobless.
Trained teachers were protesting the lack of placements, while the CNTE union demanded the state government meet its hiring and salary obligations.
Baja California day labourers arrive at ranches in the early morning and begin harvesting agricultural products on a piece-rate basis until they finish, without benefits or social security, in a completely illegal scheme.
In the face of President Sheinbaum’s roundly criticized workweek reform proposal, considered excessively flexible & accommodating to capital & the danger to workers from USMCA renegotiations Mexican labour isn’t standing still.
The bloc announced it will intensify regional meetings & coordination efforts, towards consolidating a unified trade union front.
Creative Associates International, the spooky group behind the infamous Cuban Twitter operation, and an NGO involved in dismantling Venezuela’s food system get fresh injections of cash.
This article by Jessica Xantomila originally appeared in the January 7, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper. The National Union of Workers of Nacional Monte de Piedad and the company met again yesterday at the Federal Conciliation Center, but without progress in ending the strike that broke out on October…
Veracruz’ Dockworkers Union was one of the most powerful in Latin America, until privatization and union-busting took aim, handing the port over to businessmen like Carlos Slim.
After years of budget cuts, an increase in resources for the labour monitoring institution represents operational relief.
The call from the Caracas Congress for active solidarity and international unity of the working class against the global war of occupation unleashed by the terrorist US government is of paramount importance.