Article 378 Federal Labor Law

The labor unions are prohibited from:

I.Intervening in religious matters; and

II.Exercising the profession of merchants with profit motive.

III.Participating in schemes of evasion of contributions or noncompliance with employer obligations with respect to the employees;

IV.Exercising acts of violence, discrimination, harassment or sexual harassment against their members, the employer, its representatives or its property, or against third parties;

V.Participating in acts of simulation assuming the character of employer, with the purpose that the true employer evades its responsibilities;

VI.Recording or using records in which the holding of votes or consultations of the employees is stated without these having been carried out;

VII.Obstructing the participation of the employees in the procedures of election of their union boards, imposing conditions without legal basis or any type of undue obstacle to exercise the right to vote and to be voted for, and

VIII.Committing acts of extortion or obtaining gifts from the employer, unrelated to the collective employment contract.

The hypotheses contained in sections IV, VI and VII of this article are considered as a violation of the fundamental rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining.