The raise would finally bring the purchasing power of the minimum wage up to the level it had 50 years ago in 1976, as workers have experienced decades of neoliberalism and superexploitation by foreign capital.
Mexico’s National Front for the 40-hour Workweek marks its second anniversary with nationwide mobilizations demanding an immediate reduction in working hours, in a country that works the most in the OECD.
Thousands of trade unionists gathered outside Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies to deliver the message that the union movement will not allow the reform to be diluted or for the business sector to impose conditions that limit its scope.
The CNTE teachers’ union leadership pointed out that the federal government “has only offered delaying tactics; its statements are far from the reality experienced by thousands of teachers throughout the country.”
The most frequent complaints filed by workers in Mexico concern unpaid wages, minimum wage, Christmas bonus, working hours, partial or non-payment of profit sharing.
It is time to prepare and organize strength in every center and community. To think about the class and not just the trade. The working class in these times has no option to emigrate.
For years, corporations in Mexico used outsourcing to evade financial obligations to workers, pocketing tens of billions, until a 2021 outsourcing ban closed their lucrative, exploitative loophole.
Equality is not a concession or a favor, it is an act of justice. As long as women’s work remains invisible, there will be no economic justice.
90 years ago, the ILO defined the 40 hour workweek as an international standard. Mexico still has, in 2025, a 48 hour workweek, one of the longest in the world.
Los Mineros obtained a new ruling in its favor so that the mine in Sombrerete, Zacatecas, can continue a strike that has already lasted 18 years.