Constitutional Amendment In Labor Matters

Recently, amendments to the Constitution were passed in relation to labor matters, the following being the most relevant:

• Whenever a Union initiates a strike procedure to obtain the signature of a Collective Bargaining Agreement, it must show that it represents the workers.
• The disappearance of the Labor Conciliation and Arbitration Boards and the creation of Labor Courts within the Judiciary.
• Before resorting to the Labor Courts, both management and labor must attend an obligatory conciliation process.
• The recording of Collective Bargaining Agreements and of Trade Union Organizations, shall be entrusted to a Federal, decentralized, organism.
• The vote to resolve labor disputes between Trade Unions, shall be free and secret.