Solidarity between Canadian and Mexican workers is more important than ever. By strengthening the bonds between our labour movements, we challenge the corporate-driven global race to the bottom, and promote fair working conditions, safety and dignity for all. The United Steelworkers and the Steelworkers Humanity Fund play a crucial role in this effort, providing resources, training, and support that empower Mexican workers and their communities. While working together to improve lives, we demonstrate how collective action and international solidarity can create meaningful, lasting change.
Read: Report: Mexican union activists facing violence require protection [English | Spanish]
This report analyzes cases of violence against trade unionists and labour activists in Mexico. It examines the repression of freedom of association and genuine collective bargaining, despite being fundamental rights under Mexico’s legal system, and how this occurs in relation to employer interests and the intervention or lack of intervention of the authorities.
In every corner of the world, women are faced with a gender inequality gap that, according to global indicators, will take 132 years to eliminate. This means that at least five generations of women will continue to face disadvantages and barriers compared to their male counterparts. It is challenging not to feel disheartened at the […]
Canadian and American Steelworkers were in Mexico City in early May for meetings with our allies in the Mexican labour movement.
Building solidarity between the Mexican and Canadian labour movements and beyond For many decades in Mexico, it was virtually impossible to form a genuine union due to collusion between employers, the government and company-controlled unions. Workers petitioning to unionize confronted huge legal obstacles and the threat of violence. Since 2019, labour reforms under Mexico’s progressive […]
By Paul Bocking, Project Officer – Steelworkers Humanity Fund. Labour activists across Mexico are raising awareness among their coworkers on their rights at work. In 2022, their efforts contributed to a series of union victories at companies including St. Gobain in Morelos, where nearly 2000 employees manufacture car windows, to VU on the US-Mexico border, where […]
The United Steelworkers union (USW) has filed a complaint under the Canada United States Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) on behalf of workers at a Canadian-owned mine in Mexico who have faced assaults and death threats after they joined an independent union.
This complaint calls for an independent panel to investigate and address violations of workers’ rights at the Camino Rojo gold and silver mine in Zacatecas, Mexico, which is owned by Vancouver-based Orla Mining Ltd.
The complaint, filed under CUSMA’s Rapid Response Labour Mechanism (RRM), cites the continuous and systematic denial of the workers’ rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining.