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Day Labourer Shot by National Guard
“It’s a miracle Marcelino is alive. We only ask that the authorities investigate this serious crime because they shot without any justification and directly at families.”
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Mexico’s Arbitration Board Orders Reinstallation of Honda Union Leader Fired in 2010
Jose Luis Solorio Alcala was fired in 2010 along with other workers after the creation of an independent union at the Honda plant in El Salto, Jalisco.
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CNTE Announces National Strike on June 1st & Occupation of Mexico City’s Zócalo
Union leadership says “the President of the Republic’s refusal to address our legitimate demands” led to the consensus to begin the national strike.
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CNTE Defines its Political Course for Repeal of 2007 ISSSTE Law
The Mexican teachers say they “are in a battle against financial forces that refuse to be challenged,” and that they “will have to build bridges with many organizations affected by pensions.”
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Coahuila State Police Attack, Disperse Protest by Workers from AHMSA Steel Company
Nine workers were arrested and several injured, as workers demand payment of their salaries and severance, which have been owed to them for more than three years.
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Informality Reigns Among Workers
Mexico’s enduring high levels of informality means the progress seen in recent years with minimum wage increases & vacations has not had the desired impact.
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Monte de Piedad Board Rejects Appearance Before Court
1,800 workers have been without income or benefits since the strike began in October 2025.
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Judging the Crimes of Fascist US Imperialism
The International Anti-Imperialist and Anti-Fascist Meeting, held at the headquarters of Mexico’s Electrical Workers Union, aimed to confront the onslaughts of US imperialism.
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School Administrators, Parents, Teachers & Unions Reject Premature End of Mexican School Year
The Secretariat of Education cut 28 days of classes, provoking protest amongst those who see the government “protecting the interests of the business class in the context of the World Cup.”
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Unpaid Work in Mexico is Equivalent to Cost of 30 World Cups
More than 72 percent of unpaid domestic and care tasks are performed by women; a core part of the daily functioning of the economy that remains outside of remuneration schemes.
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Mexico’s Labour Spring… with Low Temperatures & Blizzards
Substantive advances such as wage increases exist alongside serious deficiencies in working conditions & institutions: a lack of labour inspectors, undemocratic unions, growing informality and the privatized pension system.
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The Eternal Class Struggle
Despite armed attacks, police collusion & an unsympathetic state (to say the least), the strike at Tornel continues as over a thousand workers square off against an exploitative, aggressive transnational.
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Workloads & Working Hours are Main Risks to Workers’ Health in Mexico
The health of four out of every ten workers in Mexico is seriously threatened by excessive workloads and working hours.
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Nacional Monte de Piedad Union Rejects Government Arbitration Proposal
1,850 workers have not received their salaries for seven months, but they reject the government’s proposal for arbitration and demand the employer respect their collective bargaining agreement.
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Mexico City’s International Workers Day Mobilized 20,000
National unions such as CNTE, SME and unions representing PEMEX and TelMex workers participated in multiple marches which converged on the Zócalo.
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Tornel Workers Ask for President Sheinbaum’s Intervention to Resolve Strike
In March, striking workers were attacked on the picket line by an armed shock group who shot four workers.
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Mexico City Workers Call for Unity on May Day; “there are still many labour problems”
“Unity is not only found at the dialogue table but also at this event of workers and workers,” Isaías González of CROC stated.
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Mexico’s Education Secretariat Will Meet with CNTE Teachers on International Workers Day
Secretary Delgado says “there is no need for demonstrations” in the streets, but stressed, “we are respectful” of the decisions they make.
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Mexican Unions Demand Direct Dialogue with President Sheinbaum on May 1st, International Workers Day
Unions say the priority is for the President to hear firsthand the needs of the workers and improve their conditions “in a more real sense”.
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Delgado Asks CNTE Not To Obstruct World Cup
Mexico’s Secretary of Education worries for the success of the ostensible international sporting event marked by proximity to, & encouragement of, human trafficking, labour exploitation, real estate speculation and fascist collaboration.
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CNTE Announces Indefinite Strike in June During World Cup
Teachers consider the strike a “political necessity given the lack of response to the demands for the repeal of the Peña-AMLO education reform and the 2007 ISSSTE Law.”
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Morena Deputies Propose Making Mother’s Day a Paid Holiday
Mexico is one of the countries with the fewest mandatory rest days for workers, the last holiday was added in 1987.
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Volkswagen México Has 15 Days to Comply With Rulings on Anti-union Discrimination
Workers Victor Larios and Vladimir Giron hope to return to their original jobs.
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Government Handing Telmex Over to Carlos Slim for 30 More Years Violates Labour Rights: Telephone Workers
The new concession weakens regulations, the necessity of updating technology and opens the door to even more profiteering & union-busting by one of Mexico’s wealthiest billionaires.
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Teaching History in Mexico & Its Importance in the Teachers Movement
With the passing of Enrique Ávila Carrillo, one of the founders of the CNTE, the democratic Mexican teaching movement loses one of its most committed intellectuals.
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Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies Discussing Plant Closure Legislation
Unjustified collective dismissals could face fines of up to $475,636USD.
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Camino Rojo & The Narco Cover-up
The state’s unwillingness to deal with criminality & union-busting at Camino Rojo means the Canadian corporation Orla Mining is laughing all the way to the bank, along with its drug-trafficking cronies who protect its interests at gunpoint.
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17.1 Million Workers in Mexico Don’t Have an Employment Contract
As of February, 41.4% of all subordinate workers did not have a written contract, an increase of 0.7% compared to the end of 2025.
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Labour Congress Rules Out Holding International Workers Day Rally on May 1st at CDMX Zócalo
The trade union organization won’t be participating, but President Reyes Soberanis Moreno recommends organizations that do participate include his Congress’ logo.
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Striking Tornel Workers File Second Labour Complaint with USMCA Panel
Almost a month after the shooting attack on the picket line in which four workers were injured, the Secretariat of Labour and Social Welfare has not come to carry out any inspection.
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Tornel Strike Negotiations Stuck on 40 Hours Issue
The tire transnational remains intransigent on the 40 hour workweek issue and pending salary increases.
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Orla Mining: Investigate & Clarify
If it is confirmed that the Canadian mining company hired criminals to persecute its workers, the sanction cannot be limited to an administrative procedure, as this would allow companies to normalize fines as just another operating cost.
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Workers Requested Support from Mexico’s Army & Navy to Face a Mining Company & Narco Alliance, Authorities Ignored Them
Workers at the Camino Rojo mine, owned by Canada’s Orla Mining, faced violence & threats from drug traffickers.
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Unresolved Issues with Teachers
Until this crisis is addressed at its root, public education will remain the weakest link in a chain of inequalities that can no longer tolerate excuses. Mexico owes its teachers much more than applause in the Zócalo: it owes them justice.
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Mining Company in Zacatecas Used Drug Traffickers Against Workers, Mineros Union
A USMCA Rapid Response panel pointed out that Canadian company Orla Mining “remained silent and showed tolerance”; & also did not act on the complaints of violations of freedom of association nor investigate them.
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The 20-year Plan Placing Work at the Center of Mexico City
The city government says strengthening union organization and defending labour rights will be the pillars shaping the policies and programs of all city agencies for the next two decades.
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Senators Will Vote on Electronic Registration of Working Hours & 586,000 Peso Fines
The ruling to be analyzed in the Senate adds the electronic registration of the workday to the list of employer obligations.
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Mexico’s Unpaid & Exploited Gas Station Attendants
Slave-like working conditions and numerous abuses persist; while the majority of workers lack employment contracts, wages, social security, and benefits.
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Six Months of the Nacional Monte de Piedad Strike
While acknowledging that it has been difficult, trade unionist Miguel Ángel Pérez Ramírez affirmed that workers remain committed to fighting to defend & uphold their labour rights.
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Cananea Miners Over 60 Receive Monthly Payments of 9,500 Pesos
The money is part of the Justice Plan for Cananea, which aims to provide a measure of justice to workers who had been striking for 18 years.
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Menstruation & Workplace Discrimination
Although Mexico’s Federal Labour Law does not yet consider menstrual leave, four states do have menstrual leave for women workers.
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SINTTIA Denounces Fraenkische for Collective Bargaining Violations
Workers detected excessive payroll deductions and anomalies in the savings fund at the German company.
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In San Quintín, Agricultural Workers Pick for Northern Profit
Early morning starts, picking a kind of modern “red gold” that grows in the south of Baja California.
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Strengthening Tornel Workers’ Strike Fund, Promoting Work Stoppages & Coordinating Solidarity are Urgent Tasks
With four workers shot and an intransigent employer, the union needs widespread solidarity.
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Second Suspect in Attack on Striking Tornel Workers Prosecuted
What began as a workers’ protest escalated into an armed attack against those protecting the movement, with four workers shot.
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Nine Out of Ten Agricultural Workers in San Quintín, Baja California Don’t Have Social Security
“The separation between landowners, agricultural companies, and transnational corporations, combined with the multiple levels of labor intermediation, creates an extremely complicated context for workers.”
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Domestic Work: Social Security Earned, Compliance Pending
In Mexico, approximately 2.3 million people are engaged in domestic work, but incorporation into social security is stagnant and even has registered a slight decline since 2023.
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SITGM & Goodyear Reach Agreement on Wage Increase
The union secured a 5.8 percent wage increase for more than a thousand workers at the San Luis Potosí plant.
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Workers Party Senator Proposes Ban on Terms Human Resources and Human Capital in Businesses
“We are witnessing how language reflects a logic in which the primary value of people lies in their ability to generate profit,” Senator Alejandro González Yáñez said.
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Working Amidst Poverty; Life in San Quintín
Despite the more than 10 billion pesos in annual production generated by large, technologically advanced agricultural fields, farmworkers live on unpaved streets, without streetlights or public transportation; their homes lack electricity, water, and drainage.
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Mexico’s Cineteca Nacional Workers to Strike Tomorrow
In February, workers held a symbolic strike, demanding an end to reprisals and labor exploitation, as well as the payment of fair wages.
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Striking Workers at Tornel Rubber Call for Government Intervention
The union stressed the urgency of addressing the conflict since, in addition to fearing further attacks, more than 2,000 families & over 20,000 indirect jobs are affected by the company’s intransigence.
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UAW Condemns Violent Attack on Tornel Rubber Workers in Mexico, Urges Action
The US-based autoworkers union called for immediate protection for Tornel workers and their families, as well as a public condemnation of the attack by Mexican authorities and industry leaders.
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Strike Ends at Colegio de Bachilleres After Agreement with Workers
Closing 20 campuses and road blocks throughout Mexico City and Mexico state brought management back to the table to secure an agreement for the education workers union SINTCB.
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Hit & Run: Tornel Rubber Company Didn’t Attend Labour Conciliation Hearing
On March 18, striking workers on the picket line at a Tornel Rubber plant were attacked by an armed shock group of over sixty men. Four workers were shot.
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Mexico’s Workweek Reform Leaves Door Open to 56 Hour Workweeks
Once the 40-hour work week is implemented, the workday may be longer as long as the new limits established are not exceeded and the corresponding payment is made.
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Monte de Piedad Union Stands Firm: “Dignity is not negotiable”
“[Management’s] main objective is to preserve the exorbitant salaries they have never been willing to make transparent,” said the SNTNMP’s General Secretary.
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Goodyear San Luis Potosí Strike Ends with 5.8% Salary Increase
Despite the agreement, the Federal Labour complaint will go forward, as it relates to alleged violations of the Contract Law and individual rights of workers.
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Colegio de Bachilleres Union Will Close Roads in CDMX & Mexico State
“It is not the union’s fault, but rather the intransigence of the authorities of this institution who have violated the provisions of our Collective Bargaining Agreement,” a union rep said.
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CNTE Strike Day 3: Teachers vs Privatized Pensions
Photos of the Mexican teachers actions at private banks in Mexico City which manage workers pensions, whether anyone wants them to or not.
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CNTE Teachers Will Protest at Privatized Pension Companies
Today is the third and final day of the 72-hour teachers strike.
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Tornel Workers Fear More Attacks Ahead of Strike Referendum
The tire plant workers unease stems from an attack they suffered early Wednesday morning, when armed men shot and wounded four employees on the picket-line.
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Quebec Labour Group CISO Denounces Shooting of Striking Tornel Workers
An armed shock group assaulted striking workers at the Tornel Rubber plant in Tultitlán, Mexico state, shooting four workers and injuring many more, provoking condemnation from Centre International de Solidarité Ouvrière.
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Workers’ Struggle at Transnational JK Tyre Turns Bloody
How is it possible that, in 2026, Mexican workers still have to physically defend themselves against armed groups while simultaneously fighting for their rights and class interests?
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CNTE Rejects “Delaying Talks” with Education Secretariat; Insists on Dialogue with President Sheinbaum
Teachers said they had met several times with President AMLO, who told them the ISSSTE Law couldn’t be repealed because they didn’t have a majority in Congress, “now they tell us it’s because there are no resources.”
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Workers Purchasing Power Decreases
“The task at hand for workers can be none other than to promote organization and combative struggle in defense of our class interests,” writes Ricardo Torres.
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CNTE Teachers Will Blockade Mexico City’s Reforma
The striking teachers indicated that as part of their 72-hour National Strike, they will continue protesting the Mexican government’s failure to comply with agreements reached in tripartite meetings and to demand repeal of the 2007 ISSSTE Law.
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4 Workers Shot: Striking Workers Attacked at Tornel Rubber’s Tultitlán Plant
Around 4:30 AM, about 60 armed men with sticks and firearms began attacking the workers, who managed to capture two of the attackers.
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CNTE’s 72 Hour National Strike Begins, Vows World Cup Protests if Demands Not Met
The union emphasized their demand is that “the negotiation table be resumed with President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, who has failed to keep her promise to repeal the 2007 ISSSTE Law.”
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Sheinbaum: Education Secretariat Will Meet with CNTE Teachers During 72 Hour Strike
President Sheinbaum said that education officials will address demands that are “feasible to meet.”
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SITUAM, A Renewed Actor in the University
The Metropolitan Autonomous University’s faculty and staff union has broadened the base of democratic decision-making in an institution where unilateral decisions abound.
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General Motors & SINTTIA Union Resume Talks: Workers Form Strike Committee
For a plant of 7,000 workers, the mobilization of a strike committee of 300 sends a clear message to GM: a willingness to reach an agreement doesn’t imply a renunciation of their demands.
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CNTE Teachers Will Hold National Strike March 18th to 20th; Sit-in at Mexico City’s Zócalo
The CNTE urged unions and workers to join actions to demand repeal of the 2007 ISSSTE Law, & for the defense of a social security system that “provides all with health services and decent pensions.”
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Three of Every Four Unpaid Caregivers Never Cease Being Poor
Performed primarily by women in Mexico, it is a determining factor in inequality of opportunity, says a new report ‘Social Mobility & Care.’
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40-hour Workweek: A Handout from Employers That Won’t Improve Workers’ Lives
With the 40-hour workweek reform, if a worker were to work the 36 extra hours per month at double pay, they would only receive 1,206 pesos more per month than they would under the previous mandatory 48-hour workweek.
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San Luis Potosí Goodyear Workers Threatens Strike After Salary Increase Refusal
While Mexico’s general minimum wage has had a real increase of 116% in the last seven years, SITGM workers have received only 15.2% increases in the same period.
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Mexico Denounces US Use of USMCA Labour Mechanism to Influence Unions
Gabriel Tamariz, head of Labour Policy and Institutional Relations, said the mechanism is also being used to promote unions, “some founded and financed in dollars,” that don’t even have representation in companies.
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500 Million Pesos in Dues Missing; Workers Believe Mexico’s Federal Labour Regulator Complicit
Alejandro Martínez Araiza, General Secretary of the National Food and Commerce Union has spent 295 days today in blatant defiance of Federal Labor Law.
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Experts Warn About Excessive Overtime with Reduced Working Hours
The increase in permitted overtime hours may be seen by companies as a permanent remedy to compensate for the reduction to a 40-hour workweek.
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Employer Fines For Violating Workweek Limits Between 30,000 to 586,000 Pesos
Mexico’s Secretariat of Labour & Social Welfare will determine the fine based on a variety of criteria, but a dearth of labour inspectors across the country may hamper workers ability to obtain justice.
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CNTE National Strike is Opportunity to Avoid World Cup Strike
Section 9’s General Secretary said a strike during the World Cup could be avoided by President Sheinbaum keeping her promise to repeal the 2007 ISSSTE Law and meeting other demands.
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Chapingo University Workers Demand Mexico’s Agricultural Secretariat Intervene to Guarantee Wages
Five salary levels are below Mexico’s legal minimum wage, such as janitors who make a daily wage of 254 pesos when the minimum is 315 & 2025 year-end bonuses have not been paid.
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“Dignified wages are not concessions: they are constitutional rights” – Striking Cultural Workers Respond to Mexico’s Cultural Secretariat
2,000 workers have been paid below Mexico’s national minimum wage for over two years, violating the law.
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CNTE Announces 72 Hour National Strike & March to Mexico City’s Zócalo
The class-conscious teachers union will also make “courtesy visits” to the embassies of countries who committed atrocities against Iran, to show their rejection of US imperialism.
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Workers Occupy Culture Secretariat, Demand 13% Wage Increase
2,000 workers have been receiving incomes below Mexico’s minimum wage for over two years.
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Tridonex Strike in Matamoros to Start March 6th
1,300 workers are expected to strike, demanding the company fulfill its obligation to pay workers in full. Tridonex is owned by First Brands, the US autoparts corporation accused of massive fraud.
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Kimberly-Clark, Pepsi & Truper Charge Truckers for Narco Blockade Delays
Corporations stop paying for trips worth 10,000 pesos and others try to charge 1,000 pesos for each hour of delay, even when it’s due to acts of violence.
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The Illusion of “Voluntary” Overtime
Mexico’s workweek debate must focus on the workers who have “phantom” families because their time with their children is consumed by the need to maintain their jobs. It is the two days of rest for these sectors that must be debated.
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Mexican Film’s Dreary Reality: Workers Announce Work Stoppages, Decry Informality
President Sheinbaum’s Comprehensive Plan to Support National Cinema arrives as public film workers raise the alarm over unpaid wages and illegal, informal labour conditions.
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Working Poverty in Mexico Decreases in 2025
However, nearly one in three people still did not have sufficient income to cover the basic basket of goods.
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Proposals, Not Protests, says Tereso Medina, New Leader of CTM
The new President of Mexico’s largest labour federation made a contradictory speech, on one hand declaring the end of corporatism, and the other disavowing protest and vowing to serve Mexico’s productive sector to an audience which included COPARMEX’ President.
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Corporatism’s Dead, Long Live Corporatism
Mexico’s historic labour unions are trying to re-align themselves with the Fourth Transformation while the PRI continues sinking.
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Strike at Tornel Rubber Plant: 1,051 Workers Walk
The union say the strike stems from systematic and repeated violations of their collective bargaining agreements and an unsuccessful application of the USMCA Rapid Response Mechanism.
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Pasta de Conchos: Industrial Homicide
Two decades since 65 miners lost their lives, families continue to demand justice. Not all the bodies have been recovered, nor has Grupo México been fully held accountable.
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Only 32 Labour Inspectors in Mexico City for Over 460,000 Companies
Between October 2024 and August 2025, the first year of the current local administration, the Labor Secretariat carried out only 592 workplace visits.
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Workers Party Proposes to Guarantee Two Days of Rest
The deputies propose to reform Article 123 of Mexico’s Constitution to guarantee the right of two days of rest for every five days of work.
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Steelworkers Plan Parallel Trip to Mexico During Labour-Excluded “Team Canada” Trade Mission
The Canadian-American labour delegation to Mexico includes representatives of the USW, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) and the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center.
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Cineteca Will Conduct Assessment of Staff Working Conditions
An official responded three days after the peaceful protest by Colectiva Cineteca, which brings together 240 employees out of the 340 who work at the three Cineteca locations.
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University of Sonora Union Demands 50% Salary Increase; Doesn’t Rule out Strike
The union also proposes increases in benefits such as food baskets and contributions to the savings fund.
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Mexico’s Cineteca Nacional Workers Hired Through Outsourcing Demand Dignified Treatment
Colectiva Cineteca represents workers between 30 & 40 years of age, some of whom have worked there for more than 18 years.