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UNIONS USE MAY DAY EVENTS TO CRITICIZE PRESIDENT VICENTE FOX'S DECISION TO OUST MINE-UNION LEADER.
SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico, May, 2006
Tens of thousands of Mexican labor-union members filled the historic Zocalo in Mexico City on International Labor Day, also known as May Day, primarily to protest President Vicente Fox's labor policies but also to show solidarity with thousands of expatriates who were marching in cities around the US in support of immigrant rights.
The heavy turnout was a marked contrast to recent years, when the Labor Day observance has been a low-key affair, with the official labor organizations, the Confederacion de Trabajadores de Mexico (CTM) and the Congreso del Trabajo (CT), holding relatively small rallies indoors (see SourceMex, 1998-02-04, 1999-04-28 and 2001-04-25).
Independent labor organizations, led by the Union Nacional de Trabajadores (UNT), have had...
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