The victory was unprecedented the 7000 GM workers. The workers had reported serious irregularities in the voting process during the initial ballot in April of this year and lodged the first-ever complaint under the rapid response mechanism, provided for in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
The Mexican and US governments agreed to repeat the vote in the presence of independent observers from the International Labor Organization (ILO) and Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE), alongside federal work inspectors from the country’s labor ministry.