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.”
Labor
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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.
