In Mexico, thousands of workers at the largest General Motors plant have won a historic vote to form an independent union, breaking from a tradition of corrupt unions who cut deals with corporations to keep wages and benefits low.
[translated] Let’s hope those other unions change and work for the actual workers, so they, unions, don’t only look our for their own interests. A union has to represent the workers. And I believe we are going to start by making that much-needed change. We still don’t know who sent threatening messages. They were not only sent to myself, but to all my committee present here.
General Motors says it’s ready to enter negotiations with the new independent union. Under the country’s reformed labor law, the union has six months to negotiate a contract approved by a majority of the workers. For more, we go to Guanajuato in Mexico to speak with Javier Bravo, professor of history at the University of Guanajuato., Professor. It’s great to have you with us. Talk about the significance of this victory of the independent union in a GM plant in Mexico.Well, this victory of SINTTIA’s is like a — has a very big symbolic meaning for us in Guanajuato and in Mexico, because 76% of the workers have voted forand the owners of the plant.
There are some aesthetics in what is happening right now in Guanajuato, especially because the secretary general of theunion is a woman. That’s another symbolic message to the people and the working class here in Guanajuato. Me, myself, as a faculty member of the Universidad de — of Guanajuato, and my colleagues from Mexico Solidarity Project are trying to supportin all the ways that are possible to us, because they have no means.
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