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THE independent Mexican mining and metalworkers’ union Los Mineros has won a resounding victory after eight years of struggle against the yellow union CTM and a major iron castings company.
A new vote on union recognition was ordered at the Teksid Hierro de Mexico SA de CV plant located in Ciudad Frontera, Coahuila, where workers voted 642 votes in favour of Los Mineros and 172 voted (with two spoiled ballots) for the discredited CTM.
In 2018, a ballot was held where Los Mineros won the vote but the company and the CTM refused to recognise the result despite the Supreme Court of Justice in Mexico ratifying the election process.
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TONY BURKE explains how an internationally significant breakthrough for workers’ organisation and recognition against two notoriously anti-union global mega corporations has been finally achieved in Canada
TONY BURKE revels in the publication of previously unreleased tracks by the great US folksinger
