United States Seeks Mexico’s Review of Alleged Denial of Workers’ Rights at GLM Components Mexico

WASHINGTON — The Office of the United States Trade Representative has invoked the Rapid Response Labor Mechanism (RRM) in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) to review whether workers at GLM Components Mexico, S.A. de C.V. (GLM Components), located in Puebla, Mexico, are being denied the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining. The United States has suspended liquidation of unliquidated entries of goods from the GLM Components facility, which manufactures auto parts.

The United States Trade Representative (Trade Representative) and the Secretary of Labor co-chair the Interagency Labor Committee for Monitoring and Enforcement (ILC). On September 8, 2026, the ILC received an RRM petition from the Sindicato Regeneración Nacional de Trabajadores y Empleados de la República Mexicana “Morenas,” a Mexican independent union. The petition alleges that GLM Components is violating workers’ rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining, including by interfering with union activity and unlawfully firing workers in retaliation for union activity.  

The ILC reviews RRM petitions that it receives, and the accompanying information, within 30 days. After conducting this review, the ILC determined that there is sufficient, credible evidence of a denial of rights enabling the good faith invocation of enforcement mechanisms under the USMCA. As a result, the Trade Representative has submitted a request to Mexico under Annex 31-A of the USMCA that Mexico review whether workers at GLM Components are being denied the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining. The Trade Representative has also directed the Secretary of the Treasury to suspend liquidation of unliquidated entries of goods from the GLM Components facility.

Mexico has 10 days to agree to conduct a review and, if it agrees, 45 days from today to complete the review.