| | |  Business News | November 2008 
Mexico: CTM Leaders Call For Shared Sacrifice in Face of Global Crisis
 World Socialist Web Site
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Last week, Joaquin Gamboa Pascoe, national leader of the Mexican Labor Confederation (CTM), called on government, corporations and workers to "share the sacrifice" in response to the effects on Mexico of the current global financial crisis.
Speaking in Monterrey at a meeting of Mexican corporate leaders, which included Ricardo González Sada, president of the Mexican Employers Confederation (COPARMEX), Gamboa declared, "Mexican workers are accepting cuts in hours, days off without pay, and, above all, not to strike." In return, he pleaded with corporate leaders not to use strikes as an excuse for shutting down plants. He asked that corporations and the government make industry more competitive by training employees, modernizing their plants and reducing government regulations.
In an interview with the Durango daily El Siglo, Durango CTM leader and former state governor José Ramírez Gamero declared that he expected wages to keep up with Mexican inflation. "Unions and management have never had any quarrel. Company owners have always understood and responded well to the unions," declared Gamero. He added that "workers were the firms' most important asset and had to be taken care of."
CTM leaders also downplayed last week's announcement by Pepsi México that it would shut down 30 plants and eliminate 2,200 jobs. Union leader Armando Neyra Chávez indicated that the sackings would be negotiated between management and the union. He also declared that, in keeping with government requests, the union would be reducing its wage demands.
The CTM is closely allied with Mexico's Institutionalist Revolutionary Party (PRI) and to its corporatist program. Gamboa and Neyra's line is in keeping with the CTM's history of class collaboration and betrayal. |
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