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by The Associated Press Last Updated May 10, 2021 at 5:29 pm ADT MEXICO CITY — U.S. and Mexican unions on Monday filed the first labour complaint against Mexico under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade pact. The complaint argues that Mexico has not lived up to its pledge under the trade accord, known as the USMCA, to guarantee workers the right to freely organize and join the union of their choice. The complaint centres on the Tridonex auto parts assembly plant in the Mexican border city of Matamoros where workers have been fighting to join a new union. The outside organizer of that union, l...

Mexican union vote halted at GM plant; vote fixing alleged MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico faced its biggest challenge yet Friday to labor-freedom reforms under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement after an old-guard union was caught apparently destroying negative ballots at a General Motors plant in northern Mexico. Labor Secretary Luisa Maria Alcalde said the vote tampering at the pickup truck and transmission factories in the northern city of Silao were a sign that some union leaders “haven’t gotten the message” that they can no lo...

Death toll rises to 11 at General Motors plant in Silao, Mexico Eleven workers at General Motor’s Silao complex in the Mexican state of Guanajuato have died of the coronavirus, according to workers at the plant who spoke to the World Socialist Web Site Autoworker Newsletter. These deaths are the outcome of the reopening of Mexican manufacturing plants by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (or AMLO as he is commonly known) in May, giving a blank check for transnational corporations to sacrifice workers’ lives for profits. GM’s Silao complex However, the death toll at the plant may ...