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The Push for a Living Wage in Mexico

Independent unions challenge economic elite, but victories are rare and hard-fought

Comments (0) By David Bacon Wednesday, Aug 21 2002
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Campos Linas promised that even if the federal government wouldn’t enforce secret-ballot elections, he would do so within the environs of Mexico City. In addition, he announced he would make public all the sweetheart protection agreements between the pervasive company-controlled unions and employers. There are about 75,000 such sweetheart contracts nationwide, whose provisions are largely unknown to the millions of workers covered by them.

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