This week will mark the potentially watershed union election at a GM plant in Silao, Mexico, as Dan DiMaggio and Luis Feliz Leon covered for Labor Notes. In the wake of domestic union democracy legislation and new labor protections under the USMCA, an independent union is vying to unseat the “protection union” that has been in place at GM (and across huge swaths of the Mexican economy); if they’re successful, it could mark a new day for Mexican unionism as well as begin to lift the floor in key industries where the North American race to the bottom hurts workers across borders.
Jonah Furman: The week in US unions, January 22-29, 2022
