Mexican workers vote for independent union at border plant
Source: Associated Press
Mexican workers vote for independent union at border plant
April 23, 2022
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican workers have voted yet again for an independent union, this time in a city where border assembly plants have been largely dominated by old-guard unions.
A government labor board announced late Friday that employees at the Panasonic Automotive Systems factory in Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas, voted overwhelmingly to be represented by a new union.
Employees at the maquiladora, as the plants are known, had long been represented by a union affiliated with the Confederation of Mexican Workers. That federation long kept wages low and signed contracts behind workers’ backs.
The Independent National Industrial Union of Mobility Services won 1,200 votes, to 390 for the old union.
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