United States Requests First USMCA Labor Panel on a Facility in Mexico

On August 22, 2023, the United States made the first-ever request for the formation of panel under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s (USMCA) facility-specific Rapid Response Labor Mechanism (RRM) panel. 1 The case concerns a labor dispute at Grupo Mexico’s San Martin Mine in Zacatecas. While the United States has previously filed several petitions under the mechanism, this is the first RRM labor proceeding to go all the way to a dispute panel, and an affirmative determination could lead to penalties for the covered facility. In previous cases, Mexico has either successfully resolved the complaint during the initial investigation stage […]

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