MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – An independent labor union supported by international activists has won a vote to represent workers at General Motors in the central Mexican city of Silao, Mexico’s federal labor center said on Thursday.
The union, SINTTIA, beat three rivals by a wide margin, including Mexico’s biggest labor organization that had held the contract for 25 years.
The vote by several thousand workers was required under a Mexican labor reform that underpins a trade agreement with the United States and Canada.
(Reporting by Daina Beth Solomon; Editing by Jan Harvey)
