Supporting Freedom of Association in Mexico

GM’s Mexico Labor Battle Spurred by Workers’ Safety Concerns

Jun 18, 2021 —

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FES-Mexico publishes comic book on Mexico’s labour reform

Mar 29, 2021 —

From the comic Reforma Laboral para Todos (Labour Reform for Everyone) "Unions are a way to defend workers' rights"

The Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) in Mexico has published a 100-page comic book designed to raise awareness and educate workers on Mexico’s labour justice reform.

Report analyzes collective bargaining agreements in Mexico’s garment sector from a gender perspective

Jan 7, 2021 —

A new report by three Mexican labour rights experts, Inés González Nicolás, Gabino Jiménez Velasco and Andrea García, analyzes 68 collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) in Mexico’s garment industry from a gender perspective.

The report, entitled Collective Bargaining Agreements in Mexico’s Apparel Industry, as well as a 13-page summary, are available in Spanish and English.

Fighting COVID and defending workers’ rights in Northern Mexico

Nov 20, 2020 —

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit Mexico hard. As of mid-November, the country has almost one million confirmed positive cases and over 95,000 official deaths. Since the pandemic started, maquila factories in the northern states experienced waves of infections among workers, with little protection provided by factory owners and management.

Report examines working conditions in two garment factories in Morelos, Mexico

Feb 18, 2020 —

The Centro de Apoyo al Trabajador (Worker Support Centre, CAT) has published an insightful investigative report on working conditions and labour rights in two garment factories in Mexico’s Morelos State: Hermosa Amazing Grace and Cone Denim.

Workers protesting factory closure receive partial severance

Jun 12, 2019 —

Foto: Eduardo Lliteras

On May 28, 70 workers who lost their jobs when their employer closed the Alabama Mexico garment factory five months earlier finally received severance pay, but, according to a local journalist contacted by MSN, only 40% of what they were legally owed.

Workers cheated out of severance as Rintex closes factory

Feb 19, 2019 —

Workers and supporters protesting unjust dismissals, 2018

Three years after worker rights violations were first reported by labour rights advocates to Gap and other brand buyers, their Morelos-based supplier closed the factory rather than reinstate workers fired who had been attempting to form an independent union. The last remaining workers were dismissed in December 2018.

Mexican garment workers protest company’s failure to pay legal severance

Jan 15, 2019 —

Photo: Eduardo Lliteras Senties

Workers formerly employed by the clothing manufacturer, Alabama Mexico, in Yucatan, Mexico are protesting the company’s failure to provide full legal severance pay, back wages and other compensation owing after the company closed its factory in late December 2018.

Rintex fires workers who were attempting to organize

Aug 9, 2018 —

Senior management at Rintex, a garment factory in Mexico’s State of Morelos, are reportedly blaming workers that attempted to organize for better working conditions for the decision of its major buyer, Gap Inc., to end its business relationship with the factory.

More than 50 workers attempting to organize at Mexican garment factory have been fired

Jun 5, 2018 —

More than 50 leaders and members of an Independent Worker Coalition at the Rintex garment factory in the Mexican state of Morelos have been fired for wanting to be represented by an independent union.

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