
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488475146435_2842" class=""><div dir="ltr" id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488475146435_2847" class=""><div class=""><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mexico-wages-incomes-poverty-2017-2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(25, 106, 212); outline: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">http://www.businessinsider.com/mexico-wages-incomes-poverty-2017-2</a><br class=""></div><div id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488475146435_2856" class=""><h1 style="margin: 0.67em 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: headline-semi-bold, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.1em;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><b class=""><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mexico-wages-incomes-poverty-2017-2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(25, 106, 212); outline: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">Mexico's wages are so paltry that human-rights and legal groups are sounding the alarm</a></b></font></h1><div id="gmail-yiv7178654282content" class="gmail-yiv7178654282content" style="line-height: 1.5em; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail-yiv7178654282post-top" style="margin-top: 7px;"><div class="gmail-yiv7178654282flex gmail-yiv7178654282byline" style="font-family: headline-semi-normal, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; display: table; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><div class="gmail-yiv7178654282byline-icon gmail-yiv7178654282flex-auto" style="width: auto; margin-right: 10px; overflow-x: auto; max-width: 50px;"><a rel="nofollow" class="gmail-yiv7178654282author-photo-square gmail-yiv7178654282author-photo" target="_blank" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/author/christopher-woody" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); outline: none; font-size: 15px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><img class="gmail-yiv7178654282author" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/55317522ecad04a8618b4567-100-100/christopher-woody.jpg" style="border: 0px; overflow-x: auto; max-width: 50px; vertical-align: middle;"></a></div><div class="gmail-yiv7178654282flex-item" style="display: table-cell; width: auto; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="gmail-yiv7178654282list-pipes gmail-yiv7178654282no-pipe" style="overflow: hidden;"><ul style="padding: 0px; list-style: none; line-height: 1em;" class=""><li class="gmail-yiv7178654282single-author" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px; border-left-width: 0px; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: text-bottom;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/author/christopher-woody" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); outline: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">Christopher Woody</a> </li><li style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px; border-left-width: 0px; padding: 0px 2px; vertical-align: text-bottom;" class=""><div class="gmail-yiv7178654282contact"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:cwoody@businessinsider.com" title="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); outline: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span class="gmail-yiv7178654282fa-envelope-o gmail-yiv7178654282fa" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1; font-family: fontawesome; font-size: 13px; margin-top: 2px; margin-right: 5px;"></span></a> </div></li></ul></div><div class="gmail-yiv7178654282list-pipes gmail-yiv7178654282no-pipe" style="overflow: hidden;"><ul style="padding: 0px; list-style: none; line-height: 1em;" class=""><br class=""></ul></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-yiv7178654282clear-both" id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488475146435_2855" style="font-size: 19px; clear: both;"><div class="gmail-yiv7178654282KonaBody gmail-yiv7178654282post-content" id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488475146435_2854" style="font-family: georgia, times, sans-serif; margin-top: 45px; margin-bottom: 30px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="gmail-yiv7178654282display-table gmail-yiv7178654282on-image gmail-yiv7178654282KonaFilter gmail-yiv7178654282float_right gmail-yiv7178654282image gmail-yiv7178654282image-container" style="display: inline-block; overflow-x: auto; max-width: 480px; float: right; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 30px; line-height: 1.2em; min-width: 2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ow" target="_blank" href="http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.NAHC?locations=MX" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(25, 109, 141); outline: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">53.2% of the country</a> lived below the national poverty line by the broadest measure of poverty, meaning <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/carlos-slim-and-mexicos-wealth-gap-2015-8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(25, 109, 141); outline: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">they lacked</a> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/carlos-slim-and-mexicos-wealth-gap-2015-8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(25, 109, 141); outline: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">sufficient</a> "disposable income to acquire the basic food basket and make necessary expenses for health, education, clothing, housing, and transport, even if all of their home's disposable income was used exclusively for the acquisition of these goods and services."</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="gmail-yiv7178654282display-table gmail-yiv7178654282KonaFilter gmail-yiv7178654282image gmail-yiv7178654282on-image gmail-yiv7178654282image-container" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; min-width: 250px; overflow-x: auto; max-width: 100%;"><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/58810587ee14b637588b8688-2400" alt="Mexico tortilla fuel price increase protest" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; overflow: hidden; width: 800px;" class=""><span class="gmail-yiv7178654282caption-source" style="display: block; margin-top: 12px; line-height: 1.25em;"><span class="gmail-yiv7178654282caption" style="padding-right: 5px; font-family: headline-semi-bold, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">People queue to buy tortillas outside Granada market in Mexico City, Mexico, January 10, 2017.</span> <span class="gmail-yiv7178654282source" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">REUTERS/Tomas Bravo</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">These money woes come despite the time Mexicans put in on the job.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">In terms of hours worked and wages earned, Mexico is at the back of the pack among countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">Mexican laborers worked, on average, a total of <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://data.oecd.org/emp/hours-worked.htm" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(25, 109, 141); outline: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">2,246 hours</a> in 2015, the most of the 35 OECD member countries. But those workers earned on average a total of <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://data.oecd.org/earnwage/average-wages.htm#indicator-chart" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(25, 109, 141); outline: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">only $14,867</a>, the lowest in the OECD and far behind second-to-last Hungary, where workers made 19,999 in 2015.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">US workers labored, on average, for 1,790 hours in 2015, bringing home $58,714.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">Mexicans have raised legal objections to the country's paltry wages.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">"The situation is serious to such a degree that it violates what’s stipulated in the Constitution," Gerardo Esquivel, an economics professor in Mexico City and at Harvard, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mexicans-get-paid-less-for-their-work-than-any-other-developed-country-2015-7" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(25, 109, 141); outline: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">told El Daily Post</a> at the end of 2015. "The minimum salary must guarantee a decent standard of living."</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="gmail-yiv7178654282display-table gmail-yiv7178654282KonaFilter gmail-yiv7178654282image gmail-yiv7178654282on-image gmail-yiv7178654282image-container" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; min-width: 250px; overflow-x: auto; max-width: 100%;"><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/58adc29701fe5851008b5fdb-2400/ap803259799319.jpg" alt="Ciudad Juarez maquiladora factory textile Mexico workers manufacturing" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; overflow: hidden; width: 800px;" class=""><span class="gmail-yiv7178654282caption-source" style="display: block; margin-top: 12px; line-height: 1.25em;"><span class="gmail-yiv7178654282caption" style="padding-right: 5px; font-family: headline-semi-bold, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Workers manufacture car dash mats at a maquiladora belonging to the TECMA group in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, December 27, 2013.</span> <span class="gmail-yiv7178654282source" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">(AP Photo/Ivan Pierre Aguirre)</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">Last year, Maria de la Luz Gregorio — who travels four or five hours to and from work at a restaurant in Mexico City each day — <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2016/12/08/mexico/1481224214_357441.html?id_externo_rsoc=TW_CM" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(25, 109, 141); outline: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">mentioned her concerns</a> about her wages and the uncertainty they left her in to a group of lawyers at the restaurant.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">Those lawyers considered her situation and believed she would have success in court if they invoked Article 123 of the Mexican constitution, which says that "the minimum salaries should be sufficient to satisfy the normal necessities of a family head, of the material, social, cultural nature and to provide the obligatory education for the children."</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">Their case was dismissed by a judge for reasons of jurisdiction, but other human-right leaders have raised alarm about the dire economic conditions many Mexican workers face.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">"Decent work ... is the motor of progress and social prosperity, grand aspirations that are common to all humanity," Luis Raul Gonzalez Perez, the president of Mexico's National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.proceso.com.mx/472209/debe-salario-minimo-fortalecerse-permitir-a-familias-vivir-dignamente-cndh" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(25, 109, 141); outline: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">said</a> at the end of January.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="gmail-yiv7178654282display-table gmail-yiv7178654282on-image gmail-yiv7178654282KonaFilter gmail-yiv7178654282float_right gmail-yiv7178654282image gmail-yiv7178654282image-container" style="display: inline-block; overflow-x: auto; max-width: 480px; float: right; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 30px; line-height: 1.2em; min-width: 250px;"><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/55be3495371d2254008bbfa3-2400" alt="mexico workers wage wages" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; overflow: hidden; width: 480px;" class=""><span class="gmail-yiv7178654282caption-source" style="display: block; margin-top: 12px; line-height: 1.25em;"><span class="gmail-yiv7178654282caption" style="padding-right: 5px; font-family: headline-semi-bold, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Produce pickers wait for a bus as they travel to work in a neighborhood in San Quintin in Baja California state, Mexico, March 31, 2015.</span><span class="gmail-yiv7178654282source" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">REUTERS/Edgard Garrido</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">"Men and women workers have the right to enjoy material well-being and economic security to satisfy the needs inherent in their dignity."</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">In a mid-February statement, the CNDH also <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cndh.org.mx/sites/all/doc/Comunicados/2017/Com_2017_053.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(25, 109, 141); outline: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">cited</a> constitutional standards for human dignity that necessitated adjusting the current minimum salary.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">"The standards of human rights are already given, they point unequivocally to the evident relation between the minimum salary and fundamental liberties," Gonzalez Perez said in the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cndh.org.mx/sites/all/doc/Comunicados/2017/Com_2017_053.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(25, 109, 141); outline: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">statement</a>. "The commitments made on the matter by our country are binding."</p><p id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488475146435_2857" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">During a seminar at Mexico's National Autonomous University, Enrique Provencio, a researcher at the university's program for the study of development, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://aristeguinoticias.com/1702/mexico/salario-minimo-lejos-de-lograr-una-vida-digna-cndh/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(25, 109, 141); outline: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">said</a> that the inability to live a dignified life hindered the exercise of democracy.</p><p id="gmail-yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488475146435_2853" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class="">Restoring the balance, Provencio said, would require labor-reform legislation with an emphasis on salaries.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail-yiv7178654282content" style="line-height: 1.5em; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail-yiv7178654282clear-both" style="font-size: 19px; clear: both;"><div class="gmail-yiv7178654282KonaBody gmail-yiv7178654282post-content" style="font-family: georgia, times, sans-serif; margin-top: 45px; margin-bottom: 30px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>