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Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, November 13, 2022, p. 12
The labor reform faces a boycott
by the large corporate centrals, which dispute among themselves collective bargaining agreements (CCT) through legitimation processes to simulate
trade union democratization, warned specialists in the field.
Presenting a study evaluating the results of the reform three years after its implementation, Willebaldo Gómez Zuppa, a researcher at the Center for Labor Research and Trade Union Advisory (Cilas), maintained that they documented various processes in which trade union organizations –old centrals adhering to the Labor Congress– legitimized their CCTs with minimal participation, despite having a register of thousands of workers.
The labor authorities, he pointed out, They have detected that and, of course, they sign the minutes. And how can they validate a collective agreement with a participation of less than 1 percent
of the workforce, he questioned.
One of the cases occurred in the consultation that took place at the Mazda plant in Guanajuato, where the Autonomous Confederation of Workers and Employees of Mexico (Catem) won the recount against the Confederation of Workers of Mexico (432 votes) with only 486 votes. . Only 1,400 employees participated in the consultation, out of a list of 4,400 summoned, he explained.
It is a simulation of democracy
said the also professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, accusing that the aforementioned centrals, as well as the Confederation of Workers and Peasants and the Revolutionary Confederation of Workers and Peasants intimidate workers telling them they lose their rights
if they do not legitimize the CCT.
