By Armando Guajardo Torres (Chairman of the Labor Committee of COPARMEX) Mexico City, December 12 – The last labor reform of May 2019, the most important of the LFT in the last 40 years, focused on three aspects : Trade union democracies, New functions of conciliation and labor registration and new system of labor justice. With regard to trade union democracy, trade unions have been forced to modify their statutes to include questions relating to the election of representatives or the revision of their collective agreements, subjecting them to a personal, free and secret vote. These obligations, such as that of legitimizing collective agreements – it is put to the vote if the worker agrees or not with his contract and with the covered conditions – stem from the negotiations of the T-MEC, due to the pressure of the American unions. and government complacency. , generating work obligations under the pretext of improving wages and ending the “labor dumping” that drove companies to migrate to Mexico, thus losing members, income and jobs to American and Canadian unions. The United States has created a structure to monitor the fulfillment of acquired commitments and conclude the implementation of the reform in 2024, mainly on freedom of association and collective bargaining, with the visit of Kamala Harris, Vice President, and Thea Lee, deputy secretary of the department. of the Work, where they interviewed unions linked to Q4, such as organizations belonging to the FAT, CATEM, the mining union sympathetic to the AFL-CIO and similar organizations which, with the help of American unions and influential government figures, seek to occupy the representations of trade unions adhered to the Labor Congress; It is important that these authorities meet with those who today represent the majority of workers, as well as the independent and autonomous trade unionism which has broad representation and can have an objective opinion about trade unionism, and not what the Mexican government wants. they hear. I am not saying that we do not agree with the reform, we consider that our union model is exhausted and that the unions should put the worker-person at the center, making them more participatory but respecting the duty to to be and of the law and not to insult the trade union organizations and seek to change them for others whose leaders in some cases are and are questioned for their behavior, some for violent and others with rewards and penalties against, to get workers’ money. Today, we must ensure that we have a responsible trade unionism that respects the will of workers, supports them by promoting democracy in their internal processes without the impact or influence of external agents, taking care of the permanence of sources of work, which the companies and the investments which arrived do not disappear in front of an environment so problematic in the economic, political, health and social conditions and that the worker has an authentic representation. Trade unions have a great responsibility because they risk their very existence. # OpinionCoparmex
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