Eduardo Arrocha is a lawyer and consultant with an extensive professional career. He currently collaborates with the De La Vega & Martinez Rojas, S.C. Law Firm. He held the position of Vice President of Legal Affairs at The Coca-Cola Export Corporation for Latin America, a company where he worked for 25 years and from which he retired in 2010. Before that, he was Legal Director at the Syntex pharmaceutical company and was a litigating lawyer, focusing on Collective Labor Law in the airline Industry starting on1965.
THE USMCA AND THE RAPID RESPONSE LABOR MECHANISM
Q: How would you rate the use of RRLMs within the USMCA?
A: It is a very valuable mechanism that originated from an amending protocol to the Free Trade Agreement. It is important because it has the purpose of guaranteeing freedom of association for collective bargaining; nevertheless, in many cases the use of the objective of freedom of association and collective bargaining has been exceeded and it has been used in cases that are totally unrelated to this matter…
Q: What proposals were presented for the mechanism to have these rules?
A: Basically, what is sought is to obtain greater security for companies and improving communication, information and transparency in the treaty. For example, that specific information be provided to companies in regard to the alleged rights being denied…
Q: Do you believe that remediation agreements are truly useful?
A: They all end in a remediation agreement; very few have reached the panel, and, in many cases, there was no violation. In truth, in the absence of grounds, there should not be a complaint…
Note published on October 14, 2025 in radarlaboral.news section Conversations, by Contacto Radar Laboral.
