Labor Movements in Mexico: From the First to the Last Movement during President Amlo.

Monday, 7 July 2025: 10:15
Location: ASJE021 (Annex of the Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences)
Oral Presentation
Cirila QUINTERO RAMIREZ, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico
This paper analyzes the first and last labor movement during goverment of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). The first movement that was considered as the begginings of the Labor Spring because 40,000 workers in maquiladoras (assembly plants) of Matamoros were mobilized to asked economic bonus and change of unions, they won the first, but the result to the second was ambiguos; the last movement was in Volkswagen of Mexico, in Puebla City, the result was the denial to accept any violation of company to the rights of workers according with Mechanisms or Rapid Response, however the compány the reinstallation of workers, proves that they injustfied fires. Different to Matamoros, workers in VW needed to resort to possibility of strike to get an increase of salary, they get it but the plant announced economic problems and the possiblity to fire more workers. The contrast between both movement shows the small advances in the labor issues and unions in Mexico in spite that President AMLO promised that labor will be better with him. The changes introduced in the labor justice, as the formation of Center of Concilitaiton and Labor Register, seems to be one of the most important obstcles in trhe improvement of workers in Mexico.