More than two months after the most ambitious labor reform in Mexico’s history was promulgated, concerns are growing. The question now is if this reform, which is dedicated to both making trade unions more democratic and to ending the system of ‘employer protection’ collective agreements, and which is the de facto precursor to the US and Canadian ratification of a new free-trade agreement, can go beyond the paper it is written on? In addition the question is also being asked over where the funding will come from and within which timeframe?
On 05 July 2019 Mexico’s Labor Ministry announced the setting up of the ‘Labor Reform Coordination Committee’, the first session of which concentrated on the least complex theme, namely the overhauling and making legal of at least 500,000 collective accords. This is because the labor reform that was approved on 29 April 2019, (c.f. article No. 11114), intended that so-called ‘protection’ agreements would have to be regularized, or failing that be rendered invalid. These ‘protection’...
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