CJF Rules End National Judiciary Strike
The decision will end the judiciary’s prolonged strike that began on Aug. 21 over Mexico’s controversial judicial reform
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Mexican Senate Approves Extinction of Judicial Trusts
A handful of National Regeneration Movement senators, including former Supreme Court Justice of the Nation Minister Olga Sánchez Cordero, voted against the initiative
Read moreMexico’s Judicial Branch Union Moves to Temporarily Strike
Mexico’s National Union of Renewal at the Service of Workers of the Judicial Branch of the Federation called for a day of non-work on Monday in protest of massive cuts to the federal judiciary’s trusts
Read moreStriking Workers Causes Chamber of Deputies to Flee
By KELIN DILLON After striking union workers reached the front steps of Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, Dec. 14, legislators suspended their in-progress session and fled the scene as the workers attempted to enter the plenary hall. The dissenting laborers were acting in protest of the administration of the Chamber of Deputies’ Dec. 13 decision to remove income tax
Read moreEnergy Secretary Accused of Covering up Dos Bocas Clash
By KELIN DILLON As the blowback from the ongoing worker’s strike of Mexico’s under-construction Dos Bocas refinery over labor abuses continues, Secretary of Energy Rocío Nahle has come under fire by members of her very own party, the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena), for her purported role in covering up the dispute. After a violent clash at the facility, which
Read moreAMLO Threatens to Use National Guard in LP Gas Compliance
By KELIN DILLON After Mexico’s new nationwide government-imposed limits on the cost of liquified petroleum (LP) gas and the ensuing strikes from the country’s gas unions, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) during his daily press conference on Wednesday, Aug 4, said he will potentially file complaints against any parties who do not respect the new price caps and utilize
Read moreStrike Two for AMLO at the Bat
By RICARDO CASTILLO Baseball aficionado President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was pitched two unrelated labor strikes in a row on the week of Jan. 21. One was in the state of Michoacán concerning teachers, and the other was in the border city of Matamoros launched by maquiladora (in-bond assembly) industry workers. Both strikes were swerving curves that smoked right past batting
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