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WASHINGTON The United States is testing powers to protect workers under the trade deal replacing NAFTA and asked Mexico on Wednesday to probe alleged abuses at a General Motors Co factory, a move that may put tariffs on some of the firm’s profitable pickups.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said her office and the Department of Labor received “information appearing to indicate serious violations” of worker rights in an April union contract vote at GM’s Silao factory in central Mexico.
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It cited issues with illegal wages, poor Covid safety, lack of collective bargaining
Published on Thursday, May 13, 2021
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The federal government responded to the United States’ request that it review alleged union abuses at a General Motors plant in Guanajuato by accusing its neighbor of not protecting migrants’ labor rights.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) said in a statement Wednesday that Mexico’s ambassador to the United States, Esteban Moctezuma, has written to U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh to raise concerns about the “lack of application” of labor laws in the U.S. agriculture and meatpacking industries.
Mexico’s criticism of labor conditions in the United States came just after the U.S. government announced that it had asked Mexico to examine alleged union abuses at the GM factory in Silao, Guanajuato, such as denying workers the right of free association and collective bargaining.
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WASHINGTON The Biden administration on Wednesday asked Mexico to examine alleged labor rights violations at a General Motors pickup truck factory in Mexico, a move that could lead to tariffs on some of GM s most profitable vehicles under the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) on trade.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said that her agency and the U.S. Department of Labor have received information appearing to indicate serious violations of worker rights in an April union contract vote at GM s Silao factory in central Mexico.