The Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration reported that to date there are 2,160 union organizations in the country, which have the challenge of becoming attractive to new generations and moving towards a change of freedom and democracy, said Luisa María Alcalde Luján, secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS), who said that he will send a message next Sunday to the workers from the Dos Bocas Refinery.
For its part, the independent union movement, affiliated with the National Union of Workers (UNT), plans to hold a march, which on this occasion “will be emblematic”, since the pandemic affected the mobilization of workers, but this year “seeks be strengthened and send the message that it is only with the unity of the trade union organizations that it will be possible to establish the changes demanded by the labor reform, but which also seeks the democratization of the world of work”, said Francisco Hernández Juárez, collegiate president of the UNT and trade union leader of telephone operators.
Hernández Juárez maintained that there is no concrete data on whether all the organizations have already legitimized their collective bargaining agreements, since the term ends in May 2023.
“In any case, we can see that the legitimation of the more than 500,000 contracts that were accounted for in the Ministry of Labor will not be achieved; So, there are two paths, the first is that an extension be given, or that it be fulfilled, as established by law with the disappearance of the more than 450,000 contracts that will not be legitimized, ”he commented in an interview with El Economista.
Meanwhile, the unions affiliated with the Labor Congress (CT), who claim to affiliate 15 million workers, reported that there will be no workers’ demonstration on May Day in the Zócalo; The argument is that “it will be a protection measure for workers and their families,” said Reyes Soberanis Moreno, president of the CT.
Pablo Franco, of the Union of Jurists of Mexico, commented that this May Day, “we arrive with a world of work that has not fully assimilated that it is possible to have democracy and that makes most unions immobile.”