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Canadian Firm Files First USMCA Complaint against Mexico

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In what constitutes the first formal complaint against Mexico for violations of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the Canadian-owned Tridonex auto parts corporation filed a legal protest against the workers union at the company’s Matamoros, Tamaulipas, plant, on Tuesday, May 11. Tridonex, which is headquartered out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, filed the complaint under the

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Judge Suspends AMLO’s Hydrocarbon Reform

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By KELIN DILLON Mexican Judge Juan Pablo Gómez Fierro, who previously laid blows to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) energy and telecommunications reforms, ruled to suspend López Obrador’s controversial hydrocarbon law reform with general effects, the first such legal roadblock against the law. Gómez Fierro moved for the suspension to apply generally, since if it only affected the petitioners

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Workers Wages in Upcoming USMCA

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By RICARDO CASTILLO U.S. union leaders were doubtful about backing the signing of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), and rightly so. The fear the AFL-CIO had was that Mexican industrialists would continue milking workers with miserable wages as a fact of life, and its members demanded the right to witness negotiations between unions and companies to protect workers’ rights. This

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USMCA Passes Major Hurdle on Way to Approval

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XINHUA Just as Mexican, U.S. and Canadian negotiators in Mexico City were ironing out last-minute modifications to the proposed United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) Tuesday, Dec. 10, and signing a modified protocol that would allow for a trinational board of experts to oversee labor conditions (one of the major stumbling blocks for U.S. Democrats), up in Washington, the U.S. House majority

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Mexican Labor Laws on Track to Change Radically

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By RICARDO CASTILLO  Last May 1, which happened to be International Labor Day, Mexico’s Labor Secretary Luisa María Ugalde announced the new labor reform which became law upon being published in the Official Gazette of the Federation. “(This law is) historic because it looks after a pending debt in the nation, because democracy and freedom had not arrived in the

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New Labor Central Kicks Off Under Gómez Urrutia

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eNapoleón Gómez Urrutia, head of the Mexican Miners and Metal Smelters Union. Photo: veracruzenlasnoticas.com By RICARDO CASTILLO     The wheel of fortune has made a full circle for Mexican Senator Napoleón Gómez Urrutia. In 2006, Gómez Urrutia, then — and still — leader of the Mexican Miners and Metal Smelters Union, fled Mexico Canada-bound, charged with a $55 million embezzlement of union funds. Had he

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Mexican Labor Law Faces 29 Proposed Legislative Revisions

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By RICARDO CASTILLO     Both houses of the Mexican Congress are about to embark on a rewriting of the Ley Federal del Trabajo (Federal Labor Law, or LFT). The LFT debate is expected to be multifaceted and particularly interesting, mainly because the administration of the current Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), will undoubtedly favor the exploited and beleaguered Mexican working class.

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