Mexican migrant women file first USMCA labor complaint against U.S.

Mexican migrant women on Tuesday filed the first labor dispute under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, contending sex-based discrimination in recruitment and hiring processes for U.S. jobs bar them from obtaining necessary work visas. The complaint, submitted to a unit of Mexico’s Labor Ministry, “serves as an important test of the USMCA’s rules and enforcement mechanisms,” states a March 23 announcement from the Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc. (CDM). A binational coalition of civil society organizations being led by CDM...