From the Editorial Office
Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, February 19, 2022, p. 8
Unionized workers and the employers signed the comprehensive review agreement of the Contract Law of the Textile Industry of the Silk Branch and all Kinds of Artificial and Synthetic Fibers, which averts the strike in the sector.
The agreement, published yesterday in the Official Journal of the Federation by the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, establishes that as of February 9, all wages and rates of workers at the service of the industry will have an increase of 5.75 percent. Thus, the minimum wage in the sector provided in article 41 of the contract law, is 228.38 pesos per day.
In addition, both parties agreed that the companies will grant one percent of the salary to workers who have entered after February 9, 2010 under the terms and conditions established in clause 54 of the law contract, which is revised from the validity of this agreement.
The salary increase will benefit unionized workers “whether they are permanent, piecework, by task, by efficiency and derived from superior singular agreements, as well as the so-called flagswhere there are.”
In this way, the review of the law contract with the different employers concludes, and the labor sector is satisfied with the responses to the list of demands presented at the strike location
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