Confederation of Mexican Workers

Confederation of Mexican Workers
Confederación de Trabajadores de México
FoundedFebruary 21, 1936
HeadquartersMéxico D.F.
Location
  • Mexico
Members
4,500,000[1]
Key people
Carlos Aceves del Olmo Secretary General (2015 – present)
AffiliationsORIT
Websitectmoficial.org

The Confederation of Mexican Workers (Confederación de Trabajadores de México (CTM)) is the largest confederation of labor unions in Mexico. For many years, it was one of the essential pillars of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI), which ruled Mexico for more than seventy years. However, the CTM began to lose influence within the PRI structure in the late 1980s, as technocrats increasingly held power within the party. Eventually, the union found itself forced to deal with a new party in power after the PRI lost the 2000 general election, an event that drastically reduced the CTM's influence in Mexican politics.