A few days before the deadline for unions to “legitimize” their collective labor contracts (CCT), 271 procedures of this type have been carried out in Chihuahua, indicate figures from the State Office of the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration.
With this amount, Chihuahua ranks last among the northern border entities in terms of the number of CCTs whose representativeness and freedom of association have been validated with records before the federal government, while in Nuevo León there were 1,196, another 604 in Baja California, 574 in Tamaulipas, 514 in Coahuila and 441 in Sonora, as data from the Federal Center shows.
At the national level, it can be seen from the same statistics, Chihuahua occupies the 19th position, below entities such as Guerrero, where the record is 313, or Morelos, with 322, while Jalisco is in first place, with 2,458 CCTs counted. with the new conditions of the Federal Labor Law.
“It consists of ensuring that workers (…) know the content of the CCT prior to voting; and (…) the majority express their support with the content of their CCT, through a personal, free, direct and secret vote”, indicates the official information from the Federal Center.
Enrique Zertuche, in charge of this unit in Chihuahua, said yesterday that he did not have figures for the contracts in the state that will be left out of the new official register (whose deadline for the start of procedures is May 1) or the number of workers that represent those already validated.
At the national level, however, he added, it is estimated that the number of legitimations (16,865) represents 20 percent of the total CCT, thus leaving out tens of thousands considered employer protection agreements.
Susana Prieto, a labor lawyer from this border and a federal deputy for Morena, said she considered the figure of 271 CCTs validated in Chihuahua as “congruent” with the reality of the entity, which she referred to as an “anti-union paradise.”
The official information explains that the legitimization process was introduced by the labor reform of May 1, 2019 in order to end protection contracts, “in which it was not necessary for the union leader to prove that he truly represented the workers of that company, nor that the workers agreed with the terms of the negotiated contract.”
If it is not carried out within the established term, he adds, or if the workers vote against it, the CCT will cease to exist.
