Gone are the massive acts in which workers came to commemorate May Day, International work day; In 2022, it is expected that the large confederated power plants assume their commitment to move towards the new labor model in Mexico.
Thus, next Friday an event will be held in which workers’ unions such as the Confederation of Workers of Mexico (CTM), the Revolutionary Confederation of Workers and Peasants (CROC) or the National Union of Workers with telephone operators and university students Mexican Union of Electricians (SME) and the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE) to sign a commitment and find out to what extent they are going to comply with the labor reform.
“This first of May is going to be key because the redefinition of the union leadership begins,” said specialist Alfonso Bouzas, who will be at the meeting organized by the Friedrich Ebert Foundationthe International Labor Organizationthe Autonomous University of Mexicothe Metropolitan Autonomous Universityamong others, and which will be inaugurated by the Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare, Luisa María Alcalde, with a keynote address on “Implementation of the labour reform. Everyone’s responsibility.”
At the meeting, said Bouzas, “the main union leaderships are going to sit down at the table so that they can express to what extent, in what context, they interpret and are going to comply with the labor reform.”
It should be noted that with the labor reform, until now it is known that there are 2,113 federally registered unions; while there are 5,051 local unions and 3,839 collective bargaining agreements.
Pablo Franco, president of the Union of Jurists of Mexico, commented that after three years of the labor reform, this May Day “we arrive with a world of work that has not fully assimilated that it is possible to have democracy in the world of work and that makes the unions, the majority, immobile. . That companies are on the prowl trying to avoid fulfilling their obligations and that some unions are thinking that soon, when he leaves Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorwe will be able to return to the past without taking into account that this reform is not a decision of the President, but rather a decision that is the product of international trade from which no government plans to evade”.