Tag Archives: Labor Reform

US Launches Second Labor Complaint Against Mexico

By KELIN DILLON Following U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s visit to Mexico, where she tackled issues like labor reform, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh launched a second complaint against Mexico for its alleged violation of workers’ rights under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The officials allege Mexico has denied collective bargaining and free

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US VP Harris Wraps up First Trip to Mexico

By KELIN DILLON In her visit with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris tackled a multitude of problems facing relations between the two countries, from drug trafficking to labor reform, which she addressed at a public press conference concluding her trip to Mexico and Guatemala. The talks between the two officials were “candid,” said

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Mexican Labor Laws on Track to Change Radically

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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US Congressmen, Pompeo Will Spend Weekend in Mexico City

By RICARDO CASTILLO   Regardless of the fact that the United States still does not have an ambassador in Mexico, diplomatic relations are intensifying to the point that this coming weekend there are two mini-summits planned that will deal with some of the many pressing issues between the two nations. First, Mexican Foreign Relations Undersecretary for North America Jesús Seade Kuri

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