The interests of workers were not on the ballot, with the election limited to which faction of the bureaucracy gets to continue profiteering from dues money.
The labor regime of the neoliberal period in Mexico is in full decline. It was already a degeneration of the successful corporatist system, a one-party political structure in which the state controlled the unions under the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party. Unions not only became state dependent under the PRI's corporatist system, but also entered a social pact
The AFL-CIO and US government imposed a so-called “independent” union at the GM Silao factory that has acted no differently from the corrupt <i>charro</i> unions, according to six workers used in the process and then “thrown into the trash.”