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Real improvements for workers in Mexico
The labour movement is both a beneficiary and an active participant in Mexico’s transformation under Amlo, writes DAVID RABY
Union steward with the mine workers’ union, Ruth Rivera, 45, travels through the Fenix mine in La Paz, Mexico, and (right) Miners Union leader and Morena party Senator Napoleon Gomez Urrutia

IN ADDITION to health, welfare and education, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ’s 4T Transformation is bringing real improvements for organised labour and for workers in general.

While visiting the country recently I was able to talk to Miners Union leader and Morena party Senator Napoleon Gomez Urrutia, who has been at the forefront of the struggle for workers’ rights and union democracy.

For decades most unions in Mexico were notoriously corrupt and manipulated by the governing party. 

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