US- Mexico-Canada-Agreement

The [rude] awakening of collective rights for Mexican workers, and what that means for employers.

Unionization in the work place as a whole has dropping numbers both in the US and in México, nevertheless, the USMCA has a very big, intentional, and evident intent in making sure that businesses and industries that do have unions in the US and Canada, have a level trans-border playing ground in Mexico as far as recognizing the absolute right of employees to form and be part of a Union of their own choosing if they will.

It might come as a surprise that the champion for this endeavor is also the most powerful capitalist nation in the world.

When it comes to labor rights, Mexico has had bragging rights in the international community, and as a Mexican labor and employment attorney myself I am often quick to offer up that Mexico was the first country to constitutionalize labor and employment rights, since 1917, even before the Weimar Republic´s constitution in 1919.