“The separation between landowners, agricultural companies, and transnational corporations, combined with the multiple levels of labor intermediation, creates an extremely complicated context for workers.”
In Mexico, approximately 2.3 million people are engaged in domestic work, but incorporation into social security is stagnant and even has registered a slight decline since 2023.
The union secured a 5.8 percent wage increase for more than a thousand workers at the San Luis Potosí plant.
“We are witnessing how language reflects a logic in which the primary value of people lies in their ability to generate profit,” Senator Alejandro González Yáñez said.
Despite the more than 10 billion pesos in annual production generated by large, technologically advanced agricultural fields, farmworkers live on unpaved streets, without streetlights or public transportation; their homes lack electricity, water, and drainage.
In February, workers held a symbolic strike, demanding an end to reprisals and labor exploitation, as well as the payment of fair wages.
The union stressed the urgency of addressing the conflict since, in addition to fearing further attacks, more than 2,000 families & over 20,000 indirect jobs are affected by the company’s intransigence.
The US-based autoworkers union called for immediate protection for Tornel workers and their families, as well as a public condemnation of the attack by Mexican authorities and industry leaders.
Closing 20 campuses and road blocks throughout Mexico City and Mexico state brought management back to the table to secure an agreement for the education workers union SINTCB.
On March 18, striking workers on the picket line at a Tornel Rubber plant were attacked by an armed shock group of over sixty men. Four workers were shot.