The United States announced Monday that it has asked Mexico to review whether workers at Teklas Automotive in Aguascalientes, which produces auto components, are being denied their right to freedom of association and collective bargaining.
This is the fourteenth time that US authorities have formally invoked the Rapid Response Action Mechanism (RRM) of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
“Today’s action underscores the United States’ continued commitment to using the tools available in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement to protect workers’ rights to organize and join the union of their choice,” the US Trade Representative said in a statement.
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TMEC was launched in 2020 by the United States, Mexico and Canada, and the United States acted within this framework at the request of La Liga Sindical Obrera Mexicana (LSOM), an independent union, and the International Workers' Legal Assistance Network, which they highlighted as threatening workers. He fires them in retaliation for joining the unions.
Mexico now has ten days to decide whether to accept the requested review, and if so, it has 45 days from next Monday to implement the measure, the Tai government detailed in its memorandum. Evie
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