ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The principal authors of this report are John McKennirey, Lance Compa, Leoncio Lara, and Eric Griego. Additional assistance was provided by the staff of the Secretariat.
Interns: Laurie Lamb, Carlos Mallen, Katherine McLellan, and Alvaro Rodriguez de la Vega

The Secretariat acknowledges the assistance of the following agencies:
United States: National Labor Relations Board, Office of the General Counsel; NLRB Statistical Service branch; regional directors and regional office staff of NLRB Region 16 (Fort Worth, Texas) and Region 30 (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Bureau of Labor Statistics. Canada: The federal and provincial labor boards and the labor commissioner offices of the Canada Labor Relations Board and the provincial jurisdictions; Statistics Canada.

Mexico:
The Federal Conciliation and Arbitration Board of Mexico; the Local Conciliation and Arbitration Board of Chihuahua; the Local Conciliation and Arbitration Board of Nuevo Leon; the General Coordination of Labor Statistics; the Mexican Institute of Social Security. The National Administrative Offices of the three NAALC parties.

Research assistance was provided by United States
Prof. James J. Brudney, Ohio State University College of Law
Research Assistants: Arlus Stephens and David Winston Prof. David Weinstein, Temple University School of Law (Emeritus)
Research Assistant: Jeffrey Wolken Attorney Jeffrey Bryant, San Antonio, Texas Attorneys Arthur Heitzer and Susan Gramling, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Dr. Kate L. Bronfenbrenner, Cornell University
Research Assistants: Chad Apoliski, Cara Beardi, Beth Berry, Katie Briggs, Jason Coulter, Becky DiMarinis, Nicole Lindstrom, Megan O'Brien, and Clay Samford

Canada
Prof. Brian Etherington, University of Windsor
John C. Murray, Genest Murray DesBrisay Lamek
Jeffrey Sack, Q.C., Sack Goldblatt Mitchell Research Associate: Andrea Bowker, Sack Goldblatt Mitchell

Mexico
Dr. Juan Jose Ríos Estavillo, National Autonomous University of Mexico Dr. Mario Humberto Gamboa,
Former President of the Central Conciliation and Arbitration Board of the state of Nuevo Leon Lic. Humberto Flores Salas,
Former President of the Central Conciliation and Arbitration Board of the state of Chihuahua Dr. Néstor de Buen Lozano and Lic. Carlos de Buen Unna, Bufete de Buen, Ciudad de Mexico Lic. Arturo Alcalde Justiniani, Ciudad de Mexico

The Labor Secretariat of the Commission for Labor Cooperation is solely responsible for the contents of this report. Nothing in this report necessarily reflects the views of the Council of Ministers, of any government agency, or of any contractor who provided research assistance.