The highest court in Mexico has defended and reaffirmed a range of articles from the 2019 labour reform, including direct, secret and free ballots for trade union elections, the transparency requirement for trade unions in their budgetary management and the new rules for collective bargaining instituted by the reform. The result is twelve legal precedents that are now binding for Mexico’s new labour courts.
A series of twelve rulings, issued on last Friday by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) in the Semanario del Poder Judicial de la Federación, and which took effect on Monday 29 March, ratify the constitutionality of several articles of Mexico’s new labour law. The labour reform of 1 May 2019, which thoroughly modernised the country’s legal framework and introduced the concepts of trade union democracy, freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining for Mexican workers for the first time, immediately provoked the wrath of many unions affiliated to the powerful CTM (Confederación de Trabajadores de México), which is close to employers and has strong ties to political power.
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