<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/independent-union-wins-workers-vote-at-mexicos-tridonex-plant" class="">https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/independent-union-wins-workers-vote-at-mexicos-tridonex-plant</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h1 class="article-header__headline" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: nudista-web, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 3rem; font-weight: 300; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.25; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Independent union wins workers' vote at Mexico's Tridonex plant</span></h1><div class="article-header__metadata" style="box-sizing: inherit; 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font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">MATAMOROS, Mexico, Feb 28 (Reuters)</span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> - </span>Workers at Mexico's Tridonex auto-parts plant on Monday voted overwhelmingly in favor of appointing a new union, in a poll being closely watched in the United States after allegations of worker rights abuses at the plant.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.125rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: source_sans_proregular, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(43, 43, 43); word-break: break-word;" class="">Independent union SNITIS garnered 1,126 votes, outstripping the 176 votes for the current union CTM, which is part of one of Mexico's biggest labor organizations.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.125rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: source_sans_proregular, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(43, 43, 43); word-break: break-word;" class="">Workers at the plant in the northern Mexico city of Matamoros began campaigning about two years ago to replace a union that they accused of failing to push for higher wages. </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.125rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: source_sans_proregular, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(43, 43, 43); word-break: break-word;" class="">Tridonex's unlisted U.S. parent, Cardone, faced U.S. government scrutiny last year in one of the first labor complaints under a new regional trade deal, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), after workers at the plant said they were being denied the right to freely select their union.</p><div class=""><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.125rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: source_sans_proregular, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(43, 43, 43); word-break: break-word;" class="">More than 80% of eligible workers cast ballots on Monday, in a vote that U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said was being closely watched.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.125rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: source_sans_proregular, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(43, 43, 43); word-break: break-word;" class="">The election came weeks after the CTM union lost its 25-year hold at General Motors in the central city of Silao to an upstart group in an election following another complaint under the USMCA trade deal.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.125rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; 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