Inter Press Service: The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has reawakened concerns about labour conditions on Mexican drilling platforms. Restrictions on trade union freedoms, lack of insurance and health coverage, low wages, poor training and corrupt practices are some of the irregularities prevailing in Mexico’s private oil industry, according to union leaders and experts. “Workers hired by private contractors do not have the training for offshore drilling,” Ysmael García, interior secretary of the …