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Article: Independent labor federation launched in Mexico // Leader sets sights on social changes
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 30, 1997
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MEXICO CITY Breakaway union leaders on Friday inaugurated an
independent labor federation claiming more than 1.5 million members.
More than 10,000 delegates from across the country crowded into
a sports auditorium in Mexico City for the founding congress of the
National Workers Union, or UNT, which will compete with the
long-established Congress of Mexican Labor, or CTM, for Mexico's
unionized workers.
The CTM is regarded as an autocratic labor body and a pliant
ally of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which has
dominated Mexican politics since 1929.
The CTM has struggled to maintain its power in recent years,
however, and sustained a further blow in June with the death of ...