MEXICO CITY—Mexico’s lower house passed a landmark labor reform on Thursday that empowers unions to bargain more effectively on behalf of workers and clears one of the last obstacles to ratifying a deal signed last year to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement. Lawmakers approved 417-1 the enabling legislation of a 2017 constitutional change giving workers the right to elect union leaders in direct elections with secret ballots, among other pro-labor changes. Lawmakers from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 11, 2019 22:18 UTC