Constellation Brands Brewery Workers Seek Alternate Union

ByFrancisco Minjares

This article by Francisco Minjares originally appeared in the January 29, 2026 edition of Diario del Yaqui.

Brewery workers began the first stage of affiliation with the United Front movement after forming an organization supported by the National Alternative Trade Union (SINAGA), seeking to consolidate themselves as a labour and alternative representation for the union.

Jesús Eduardo Ruiz Ortiz, general secretary of Frente Unido Section 27, said that, being supported by SINAGA, the workers who join this organization will have the recognition granted by the Federal Labor Law, and will continue to enjoy all their labour rights.

“The rights you have acquired are irrevocable and cannot be waived. Just because you change unions doesn’t mean you’ll lose any benefits. Every benefit you’ve already acquired, whether you’re in the union, not in it, or if you change unions, is being protected, and every right is yours as a worker. You are a worker, and every benefit of the collective agreement applies to you,” he elaborated during his presentation.

The union leader said that Constellation Brands was notified of the formation of this union organization on January 21 of this year, and that a list of workers who freely agreed to join was given to the company.

In this first stage, there are between 30 and 50 affiliated workers who are in the process of submitting the corresponding paperwork, with a view to continuing to grow.

The union members will work with the principles of fairness, transparency, and dignified representation for the plant workers who decide to join.

During his speech, Pedro Enrique Robles Castillo, general secretary of SINAGA, said that this effort is being made by emphasizing free unionization to enforce the labor rights of workers.

The organization includes workers who are over 20 or 30 years old, who say they do this out of conviction and based on the rights granted to them by the labor reform. Representatives of the labor union stated that, as a result of the labor reform, workers have the right to organize and exercise their rights without reprisals.