Yet like the Democratic and Republican pageants, the workers' convention saw dissent and interruptions.
A Domestic Workers Convention adopted by the ILO in 2011 has found little support in the region.
The congress saw the launch of the Claiming Rights report, which seeks reform of national labour laws and more widespread ratification of the domestic workers convention of 2011.
Domestic Workers Convention, adopted last year, prohibits domestic work by young children and entitles domestic workers to days off, minimum-wage coverage, limits to hours of work, and other rights that most workers take for granted.
For example, the 2011 domestic workers convention is a recognition that the world's 53 million domestic workers are often in private households unprotected and excluded from legislation protecting other workforces.
But when Mexico's foreign minister, Jorge Castañeda, did so on Tuesday night, saying at the hotel workers' convention here that illegal Mexican immigrants should be given legal status to prevent their exploitation, he got a rousing ovation.
Last month, she went to the United Nations in New York, paid for by the International Labour Organisation, and in an impassioned speech, accompanied by a video plea from domestic workers, implored Britain to sign a new workers' convention that will enshrine the labour rights of some 8 million domestic workers around the world.
The comments by the former president, at a postal workers' convention in Nevada on Monday, came as he discussed efforts by the moderators and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's Democratic rivals at the debate on Oct. 30 to get Mrs. Clinton to give a quick and clear answer on the issue of driver's licenses for illegal immigrants.
Birth of a union: Nationwide fast food workers convention is underway.
