Mexico prez trying to crush labor unions legally

[Donnachaidh]

http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2011/04/mexico-prez-trying-to-crush-labor.html

Mexico's oligarchs, led by President Felipe Calderon, are trying to take away workers' collective bargaining rights.

They're calling it "labor law reform," of course. Critics say it's just a political gift to the powerful industrialists who back the political campaigns of elected officials.

Gee, where have we heard that before?

People's World reports that a labor reform bill before the Legislature

...would make it much easier for companies to use small enterprises as fronts for massive "outsourcing" scams. It would permit management to do end runs around unions and negotiate different wages and working conditions from those in the collective bargaining contract with individual workers. It would legalize the existing practice of temporary and short-term labor contracts. It would control of hours and shifts away from the collective bargaining process and make it a prerogative of management only. It would virtually abolish minimum wage.

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