Hit & Run: Tornel Rubber Company Didn’t Attend Labour Conciliation Hearing

BySilvia Chávez

This article by Silvia Chávez originally appeared in the March 24, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.

Tultitlán, Mexico. Representatives of the Hulera Tornel company did not appear at the conciliation hearing scheduled by the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labour Registration of Mexico City for this Tuesday, reported union leader Gerardo Alberto Meneses Ávila, who said that 1,051 workers are maintaining the strike movement that began on February 23.

“The National Union of Workers of the Tornel Company attended the meeting, but the employers did not attend, although they were not obligated to attend, they should have been present because it is a matter of interest to their workers,” stated the union’s general secretary, Meneses Ávila, who said that he went to the Federal Center at ten in the morning accompanied by a lawyer.

He commented that the company was duly notified four days ago and the union representatives promptly attended the call from the labour authority with the objective of enforcing and protecting the labour rights of the 1,051 workers of the Tornel company; he stressed that in these times of transformation the working class expects actions with labour justice.

Representatives from the Hulera Tornel company failed to appear at the conciliation hearing scheduled by the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labour Registration in Mexico City for Tuesday, reported union leader Gerardo Alberto Meneses Ávila. Photo: Silvia Chávez González

Gerardo Alberto Meneses stated that the union filed a formal complaint at the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labour Registration in Mexico City, through which the union requests the intervention of President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, the Secretary of Labour and Social Welfare, Marath Baruch Bolaños López, the Governor of the State of Mexico, Delfina Gómez Álvarez, and the Head of Government of Mexico City, Clara Brugada Molina.

He emphasized that the intervention of the aforementioned authorities is for a solution to the labour conflict, in which the employer is not complying with the legal framework in labour matters, affecting 1,051 workers and their families.

He stated that the resistance continues and that the path will be followed in the Labour Court, that the union went to a conciliation, but there was no response.

It is worth remembering that last Sunday, the union base, by majority vote, with 883 votes in favor and 113 against, endorsed the outbreak of the strike that began on February 23 in its four plants located in the municipalities of Azcapotzalco (two), Miguel Hidalgo (one), in Mexico City and in the municipality of Tultitlán (one), State of Mexico.