Mexico to Allow Union Vote at G.M. Plant After U.S. Complaint
The Biden administration had asked Mexico to review potential labor violations, citing conditions in the new North American trade agreement.
Workers outside the General Motors plant in Silao, Mexico. The Biden administration asked the Mexican government to review potential worker violations at the factory.Credit.Reuters
July 8, 2021
The United States on Thursday reached a deal with Mexico to give workers at a General Motors plant in the country the ability to vote on a collective bargaining agreement in “free and democratic conditions.”
It is the first step toward remediation of a complaint the Biden administration filed in May, using a new “rapid response” mechanism in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement last year. The new agreement included language giving factory workers in the United States, Canada and Mexico the right to form unions and authori
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