Workers at GM’s Mexico Assembly Plant Vote Out Old Guard Union
SILAO, Mexico—Workers at two General Motors’ assembly plants here voted for a new independent union to represent them after ousting an old guard union last year, according to results announced Feb. 3.
The vote among the roughly 6,500 employees of the factories, which assemble transmissions and pickups, was a major test of whether a measure of freedom has come to Mexico, where pro-company unions held wages down for decades and drained manufacturing jobs from the U.S. When finally given the chance to vote by secret ballot on which union would represent them—something it took a U.S. labor complaint to achieve—the results from the voting Feb. 2-3 weren’t close.