The Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM) is Mexico’s largest labor union federation, founded in 1936. It played a crucial role in supporting the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) for decades. The CTM has been instrumental in advocating for workers’ rights, including better wages, working conditions, and social benefits.
After 89 years of alliance with the PRI, the Confederation of Workers of Mexico (CTM) took an unexpected turn: it is getting closer to Morena and leaving behind the party that has sheltered it since its founding with Lázaro Cárdenas back in the 1930s.
On its 89th anniversary, the presence of the Secretary of Labor, Marath Bolaños, and the Undersecretary of the Interior, César Yáñez, was not a coincidence. What was more, the effusiveness with which Bolaños praised the CTM and its leader Carlos Aceves del Olmo was surprising.
The message between the lines? A direct warning to the leader of the Autonomous Confederation of Workers and Employees of Mexico (CATEM), Pedro Haces: the government of Morena does not guarantee him support to continue adding unions. The CTM remains the most important labor union in Mexico.
This was some kind of “indirect” but also clear message from the union scene.
Political opportunism or trade union pragmatism? The truth is that, in times of transformation, the CTM has already painted itself in the colors of the Morena political party, in what many see as the end of an era.
Source: El Universal
