Protest Marches in Mexico City Mark International Labor Day
While the workers’ protest marches filled the capital, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador offered a three-hour speech from the National Palace
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Mexico’s Congress Approves Outsourcing Bill
By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Senate passed President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial outsourcing bill with near-unanimous approval on Tuesday, April 20, thus limiting the public and private sector’s ability to subcontract and outsource labor for projects. The bill passed through the Senate with 118 votes in favor, two in abstention and none against, allowing the reform to continue with
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO and Governors Powwow Mexico’s 32 governors are giddying up to meet on Wednesday, Aug. 19, with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in San Luis Potosí. Previous to the in-person summit, a group of 10 governors known as the Federalist Alliance video conferenced on Saturday, Aug. 15, to outline a plan of discussion with the president.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO U.S. OKs Anti-Covid-19 Exports to Mexico, Canada The U.S. export prohibition of anti-Covid-19 personal protection equipment to Mexico and Canada has been lifted, according to a memo issued by the U.S. Customs Border Protection Agency. The ban included ventilators, mouth covers and balloons, which can now be acquired by Mexico. On Tuesday, April 14, Mexican President Andrés
Read moreMexican Outsourcing Bill Still in the Making
By RICARDO CASTILLO The Mexican Senate draft of the new labor subcontracting or outsourcing bill project bill has undergone some major changes so far. It’s also been the subject of deep divisions among senators, some wanting to go the radical route and others obeying lobbying efforts from both foreign and national companies that have so far gotten their way in
Read moreWorkers Wages in Upcoming USMCA
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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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican Constitution Day Though officially sessions for both houses of the Mexican Congress kicked off on Saturday, Feb. 1, the first gathering to discuss legal issues will be on Mexico’s Constitution Day, Feb. 5. By now, 14 months after he was sworn in, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has most of his campaign legislative agenda laid
Read moreMexican 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
Read moreLabor Impositions Threaten USMCA Passage
By RICARDO CASTILLO What’s going both in the Mexican Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives regarding the implementation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)? U.S. House Democrats want to include additional clauses that Mexico will not accept. Namely, they want to have inspectors included in union elections to guarantee that the pact’s labor chapter is enforced. In Mexico, mining
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By RICARDO CASTILLO LeBarón Case Falls in Fiscal’s Lap The Fiscal General of the Republic (FGR) has under its aegis “total control” over information regarding the murder of six children and three women in northern Mexico last Nov. 4, all of them members of the Mormon binational LeBarón family. Mexican Interior Secretary (SeGob) Olga Sánchez Cordero made the official announcement
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