Velazquez Sanchez, Fidel

Velazquez Sanchez, Fidel
▪ 1998

      , Mexican labour leader (b. May 12?, 1900, San Pedro Azcapotzaltongo [now Villa Nicolás Romero], Mex.—d. June 21, 1997, Mexico City, Mex.), was leader of the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM), Mexico's largest labour union, for more than half a century. The CTM was closely affiliated with the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which had been in power since 1929, and was deemed essential to the party's political domination. Velázquez, who received no formal education beyond the sixth grade, worked as a field labourer and a milkman and in 1921 helped found the Union of Milk Workers. The CTM was formed in 1936, and within five years he was at its helm. He used his charisma and innate leadership ability to control the union, and during his tenure it grew to boast some six million members. In the early years the relationship between the CTM and the PRI was mutually beneficial; the government provided favours to those belonging to the union, and in return the union provided the PRI with political support and a stable workforce. Velázquez was credited with having played a key role in gaining for employees the legal right to strike, and during the 1950s and '60s he helped to secure significant wage increases. In recent years, however, Velázquez was criticized for going along with the government's plan to keep wages down to help fuel the country's economic recovery, which caused the workers' standard of living to suffer. He also served two terms (1946-52 and 1958-64) in the Mexican Senate.

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