The “direct line” that the United States government set up, as part of the trade agreement with Mexico and Canada, to monitor compliance with the labor rights on collective bargaining and freedom of association within the T-MEC, had “an update” so that Mexican workers can make better use of it.
According to information from the Office of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) through this mechanism, the labor issues that can be reported are related to unions, collective bargaining, forced labor, child labor, discrimination, wages, overtime, and health and safety issues at work , among others.
Through social networks, the United States Embassy reported that complaints can be sent anonymously, and can include attached documents, since in the past documents could not be attached, as there was an update such as line 2.0 to make it more simple to the user.
It should be remembered that this line has been enabled for about a year, and is being updated to make it more user-friendly. The “online complaint line” was ordered by the United States government in section 1.7 of the implementation of the T-MEC, receives information on labor issues between countries of the T-MEC.
On the page request new information as a city, state, all in order to better catalog the information that ILAB receives, always taking care of the confidentiality of whoever gives the information so as not to put those who use this mechanism at risk.
It should be noted that since the first of July, the T-MEC it has stronger and more far-reaching labor provisions than any commercial agreement.
Since the entry into force of T-MEC avant-garde elements were put in place, such as the new implementing provisions of the Rapid Response Labor Mechanism which is the first of its kind and allows the United States to take enforcement action against individual factories if they fail to comply with national freedom of association and collective bargaining laws.
In Mexico, two significant complaints have already been filed, one of them was against the process of legitimation of the collective bargaining agreement of General Motors at its plant in Silao, Guanajuato.
Even though there is no data regarding how many complaints have been presented; at the time Naomi C. Fellows, labor counselor of the United States Embassy in Mexico, commented that since the hotline (direct line) of the T-MEC At the US embassy, most of the complaints, “three-quarters” come from cases that denounce labor behavior against Mexican companies.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx