One step forward, several steps back

Two sentences of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation on collective labor relations

Abstract

This article seeks to provide a reflection on two recent judgments of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation in matters of collective labor relations: “APSAI” and “Romero”. We will analyze both sentences, in their different instances, until we arrive at the decision of the Supreme Court. We believe that both judgments, within their jurisprudential tendencies, further complicate the panorama of treatment of various neuralgic issues regarding workers' trade union associations and their representatives.

In the first sentence, we will address the withholding of union dues by simply registered associations and in the second, we will address the union protection of union representatives. As a preliminary conclusion, we can assert that the Court, through different technicalities and appraisals of the specific case, has taken new turns in the matter of collective relations, by denying, in turn, decision-making tendencies from other years.

Although these are very specific cases, it is known that the rulings of the Highest Court are influential for other judicial instances, at the same time that they establish standards in the same extraordinary instance, and hence the importance in their analysis.