Countdown begins: STPS calls on unions to legitimize their collective contracts


As of this Sunday, the countdown begins so that the union organizations in the country comply with legitimizing their current collective agreements with the companies, otherwise, they will disappear on May 1, 2023.

Interviewed after presenting the conference “Implementation of the labor reform. A responsibility of all”, the Secretary of Labor Luisa Maria Mayor Lujan He said that so far they have complied with this requirement of the Federal Labor Law at least 4,000 contracts, out of a universe of 550,000; for which he called on the active unions to carry out the legitimation process.

He argued that there will be no extensions, and from that date the contracts will be terminated, leaving open the possibility for all unions to claim their ownership, although for this they must become attractive to workers.

To the event, in which, for the first time -since the labour reform of 2019- unions of all currents met (CTC, CTM, CROC, UNT, Electricians and Miners) the Minister of Labor called on the unions to return to the origins and assume the labor changes and build an agenda for the future .

After pointing out that this is a good time to promote a union pactsaid that it is time to “recover Mexican trade unionism.”

Likewise, he proposed to the trade unionists to review the way to advance in the legitimations, as well as to work for training in the use of technology and to achieve an adequate negotiation with the companies that give the workers a democratic union life and total respect for their rights. Rights.



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