Fox and Abascal have vowed to maintain Mexican agencies in which the government, employers and PRI-dominated unions share power at the expense of working people. Fox has created another tripartite body, the Council for Dialogue with the Productive Sectors, to help maintain wage ceilings. And Fox is proposing labor-law changes that would weaken worker protections. The UNT is trying to harness a new militancy among workers. While the workplace ferment remains sporadic, the labor movement is becoming more independent, democratic and militant.
Mexican workers stand at the threshold of challenging employers and the old-guard unions.
Fox is in their way.