US, Mexico Reach Accord on Labor-Rights Breach at Auto Plant

The US and Mexico agreed on a course of remediation to address labor-rights violations at a VU Manufacturas auto-parts facility in Piedras Negras, Coahuila.

• Agreement seeks to remedy the denial of rights to freedom of association that undermined a majority union’s ability to represent workers in collective-bargaining negotiations and their right to strike, US Trade Representative says in statement
• US had filed a second petition under the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s Rapid Response Labor Mechanism
• “The agreement represents yet another US-Mexico joint effort to ensure that workers in Mexico can freely exercise their labor rights, including protections obtained through prior Rapid Response ...