Mexican workers vote for independent union at border plant

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Mexican workers vote for independent union at border plant

April 23, 2022

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican workers have voted yet again for an independent union, this time in a city where border assembly plants have been largely dominated by old-guard unions.

A government labor board announced late Friday that employees at the Panasonic Automotive Systems factory in Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas, voted overwhelmingly to be represented by a new union.

Employees at the maquiladora, as the plants are known, had long been represented by a union affiliated with the Confederation of Mexican Workers. That federation long kept wages low and signed contracts behind workers’ backs.

The Independent National Industrial Union of Mobility Services won 1,200 votes, to 390 for the old union.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. It would be wonderful to see workers in other countries able to end their own cruel exploitation

by greedy US-based corporate owners who refuse to pay US workers what they rightfully earn.

They love poorer economies because the people there aren't able to demand fair treatment. Taking time to research will teach you these US-based companies even have resorted to paying local "talent" for barbaric brutality to torture, terrorize, then murder any workers' leaders who dare to try to get fair wages, safety standards, retirement, and humane conditions at their jobs.

Murder, torture, terrorism has been used against US workers in earlier times against US workers, relentlessly, as they spoke out against all of the above as well as child labor in factories before somehow unions were finally able to win enough power to make it too expensive for greedy industrialists to keep harming and killing them for resisting slavery and barbaric abuse by greedy owners.

Best wishes to the workers of Mexico. In time, you WILL win after wearing them down over generations. They are outnumbered.