Приводимые ниже выводы содержатся в заключительной части доклада, подготовленного группой экспертов Международной Организации Труда, исследовавших социально-экономические и правовые условия труда и занятости рабочих в крупных индустриальных центраx Мексики в штатах Mexico D.F., Estado de Mexico, Nuevo Leon, Monclova, Coahuila, Baja California, Chichuachua.
1. Workers do not earn a living wage
2. Workers’ health and safety is at risk
3. Environmental hazards pose a serious threat to workers and their communities
4. Women workers face discrimination and sexual harassment
5. Child labor is widespread in the informal economy and in many industries
6. Human rights are not respected by the government or the judicial system
7. Freedom of workers’ professional associations is denied
8. Labor law denies workers’ rights
9. Labor law denies the right to strike
10. Labor Boards deny workers’ rights
11. Union democracy is virtually nonexistent
12. Unions and employers collude to fire workers
13. Violence is perpetrated against workers
14. Massive police force is used against workers
15. Political figures interfere in labor relations
16. Entire unions are eliminated when they oppose state-party policy
17. Maquiladora workers receive low wages and are granted no workers’ rights
18. Overall, Mexican workers are not better off than they were pre-modernization, but have lost much of their ability to exercise fundamental labor rights over the last two decades, a condition that shows no sign of improving over the coming years