With the T-MEC, Mexico is relaunching a process of silence for certain unions now regulated by the Treaty and by company unionism.

Fabien Vega

He USMCA entered into force as a new free trade treaty who replaced the NAFTA (1994) between the three North American countries (Mexico, UNITED STATES And Canada) three years ago.

It is celebrated a lot because it is thought for a region that is productively homogeneous, commercially homogeneous, balanced, balanced. Foreign investment was even thought out based on a magic logic, such that flows of foreign investment will arrive.

However, for matthew crossa nielldoctor in Latin American studies and researcher at Mora Institute, this logic does not correspond to the reality of work in Mexico. He recalled that there were some renegotiations who have been under pressure from UNITED STATES when he changed government in 2020.

What caused the trade relationship between countries unequal And subordinate in terms of salary.

In Mexico, this situation is exacerbated by the existence of a precarious employment situation and this is reflected both in contracts workers, such as their freedom of association in unionsnow under the control of a company unionism which confronts them with a new process of silence And regulation.

A responsibility for decades of attacks against the working population

For what to see for the labor law and the terms of millions of workers in the country is, for Crossa Niell, at the center of labor policy.

Reversing it involves launching huge information mechanisms. We thought of a process of democratization from above, but it is doomed to many limitations. Until the hard workers, who physically and mentally produce on the production lines, are brought in, we cannot move forward in this process. If we only think institutionally, we are doomed to failure.