Mexican VW Workers Weigh Strike as Company Cuts Jobs Globally
After 800 layoffs and a rejected wage offer, the independent union at VW’s Puebla plant, the largest outside Germany, reached a tentative 13.16% deal.
After 800 layoffs and a rejected wage offer, the independent union at VW’s Puebla plant, the largest outside Germany, reached a tentative 13.16% deal.
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on workers’ rights, social programs, constitutional reforms, Ayotzinapa, and the UN.
The SITRABICS union says the automaker is faking bankruptcy to dodge a T-MEC labor order, pushing drivers into cabotage that costs them their US visas.
Wages now make up 30.8% of GDP (4.1 points more than in 2018) and labor poverty fell to 31.9%: the Fourth Transformation reversing decades of neoliberal wealth transfer to those at the top.
Real wages in Mexico rose 15.1% over five years, nearly triple the OECD average, while only the US and Canada saw their real minimum wage fall.
Beyond the housing grants, the plan regularizes land tenure and launches joint IMSS labor inspections of farms exploiting piecework day laborers.
After 19 days, the CNTE recessed its strike against the 2007 ISSSTE Law; Section 22 of Oaxaca approved the pause 12,818-3,594, framing it as a regrouping.
Mining Union attorney says Canadian and U.S. companies are calling in drug-trafficking mafias to break unions at Peñasquito and Camino Rojo.
Day 16 of the national strike: contingents from six states gather at three points, with an afternoon forum on Pensionissste planned.
Section 7 demands Sheinbaum take the negotiating table herself; rejects June 2 counter-proposal and calls for return to IMSS-style solidarity pensions.