Mexico: US files tenth complaint under the USMCA for alleged labour rights violations by the garment company INISA
"US asks Mexico to review alleged denial of workers' rights at garment facility", 12 June 2023
...The United States has asked Mexico to review whether workers at a denim garment factory in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes are being denied the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining, the U.S. Trade Representative's office said on Monday.
...[T]he request regarding a garment facility owned by Industrias del Interior (INISA)...marked the first such labor rights complaint in the garment sector...
USTR said the Interagency Labor Committee for Monitoring and Enforcement (ILC) received a petition from a Mexican labor organization, Frente Auténtico del Trabajo (FAT), and the Sindicato de Industrias del Interior, a union representing workers at the facility, on May 12.
It alleged that INISA is coercing workers to accept the company’s proposed collective bargaining agreement revisions and intervening in the union’s internal affairs. The petition also alleged INISA is failing to bargain in good faith with the union.
The ILC reviewed the petition and found what it called "sufficient, credible evidence of a denial of rights enabling the good faith invocation of enforcement mechanisms," USTR said...