Article 371 Federal Labor Law

The bylaws of the labor unions shall contain:

I.Name that distinguishes it from the others;

II.Domicile;

III.Object;

IV.Duration. Failing this provision, the labor union shall be understood as constituted for an indefinite term;

V.Conditions of admission of members;

VI.Obligations and rights of the associates;

VII.Grounds and procedures for expulsion and disciplinary corrections. In the cases of expulsion the following rules shall be observed:

a)The assembly of employees shall meet for the sole purpose of hearing the expulsion.

b)When dealing with labor unions integrated by sections, the expulsion procedure shall be carried out before the assembly of the corresponding section, but the expulsion resolution shall be submitted to the decision of the employees of each of the sections that integrate the labor union.

c)The affected employee shall be heard in defense, in accordance with the provisions contained in the bylaws.

d)The assembly shall hear the evidence that serves as the basis for the procedure and that offered by the affected employee.

e)The employees may not be represented nor cast their vote in writing.

f)The expulsion must be approved by a majority of two thirds of the total of the members of the labor union.

g)The expulsion may only be decreed for the cases expressly consigned in the bylaws, duly proven and exactly applicable to the case;

VIII.Manner of convening the assembly, time of holding of the ordinary ones and quorum required to hold sessions. In the event that the board does not timely convene the assemblies provided in the bylaws, the employees who represent at least thirty-three percent of the total of the members of the labor union or of the section may request the board to convene the assembly, and if it does not do so within a term of ten days, the requesting parties may make the call, in which case, for the assembly to hold sessions and adopt resolutions, the presence of two thirds of the total of the members of the labor union or of the section is required.

The resolutions shall be adopted by at least fifty-one percent of the total of the members of the labor union or of the section;

IX.Procedure for the election of the union board and union sections, which shall be carried out through the exercise of the direct, personal, free, direct and secret vote.

For such purpose, the bylaws shall observe the following rules:

a)The election call shall be issued with the handwritten signature of the persons empowered to do so, and must specify date, hour, place of the process and the other requirements demanded by the bylaws;

b)The call must be published in the union premises and in the places of greatest concentration of the members in the workplace, at least ten days in advance;

c)The place determined for the holding of the electoral process, as well as the documentation and materials prepared for it, must guarantee that the voting takes place in a secure, direct, personal, free and secret manner;

d)A complete and updated register of the members of the labor union entitled to vote shall be integrated, which must be published and made known among them at least three days in advance of the election;

e)Establish a procedure that ensures the identification of the affiliates who are entitled to vote, and

f)The documentation, material and ballots for the election of integration of the internal organs of the labor unions referred to in this subparagraph shall contain at least the following data and requirements:

1.- Municipality and state (federal entity) in which the voting is held;

2.- Position for which the candidate or candidates is nominated;

3.- Emblem and color of each one of the slates that participate with candidates in the election in question;

4.- The full name of the candidate or candidates to be elected, and

5.- The ballots must be validated on the reverse with the signatures of at least two members of the Electoral Commission agreed upon for such purposes by the labor union.

The election procedure carried out by the members of a labor union with respect to the General Secretary or its equivalent at the national, state, sectional, local or municipal level shall be carried out independently of the election of delegates to the union congresses or conventions, complying with the requirements referred to in this subparagraph.

In virtue of the fact that these requirements are essential to express the free will of the affiliates of the labor union, if these are not complied with, the election procedure shall lack validity, whether at the general or sectional level, as the case may be;

IX Bis. In the integration of the union boards, proportional representation on the basis of gender shall be established;

IX Ter. Rules for the integration and operation of a collegiate decision body, which shall be responsible for organizing and qualifying the procedures of election of the internal organs of the labor union;

X.Term of duration of the union board and of the sectional representations. In the case of reelection, it shall be the faculty of the assembly to decide, by personal, free, direct and secret vote, the term of duration and the number of times that the union leaders may be reelected. The term of duration of the board and, where applicable, the reelection, must respect the guarantees referred to in Article 358, section II, of this Law;

XI.Rules for the administration, acquisition and disposal of the assets, patrimony of the labor union;

XII.Manner of payment and amount of the union dues;

XIII.Time and manner of presentation of the complete and detailed account of the administration of the union patrimony and sanctions for its directors in case of noncompliance.

For such purposes, internal bodies and procedures must be established that ensure the resolution of controversies among the members, arising from the management of the union funds.

XIV.Rules for the liquidation of the union patrimony; and

XIV Bis. Procedure for carrying out the consultation of the employees by personal, free and secret vote for the approval of the content of initial collective employment contracts and of their revisions. For such purpose, the bylaws must observe the procedure contemplated in Article 390 Ter, section II of this Law, and

XV.The other rules that the assembly approves.