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The Escalating Struggles Over Mexico's Labor Law

LABOR LAW REFORM HAS BECOME A HIGH-profile issue in Mexico. Newspaper columnists and television pundits debate it, politicians in the Congress argue over it and hundreds of thousands of workers have taken to the streets to protest and resist it. At issue is an attempt by President Vicente Fox and his secretary of Labor, Carlos Abascal, together with their National Action Party (PAN) and Mexican business interests, to codify into law many of the most egregious aspects of Mexico's notoriously corrupt system of labor relations. The labor law reform proposal, known as the Plan Abascal, forms part of a conservative business agenda aimed at the privatization of industry and social programs, all ...

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