In San Quintín, Agricultural Workers Pick for Northern Profit
Early morning starts, picking a kind of modern “red gold” that grows in the south of Baja California.
Labor
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Strengthening Tornel Workers’ Strike Fund, Promoting Work Stoppages & Coordinating Solidarity are Urgent Tasks
With four workers shot and an intransigent employer, the union needs widespread solidarity.
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Second Suspect in Attack on Striking Tornel Workers Prosecuted
What began as a workers’ protest escalated into an armed attack against those protecting the movement, with four workers shot.
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Nine Out of Ten Agricultural Workers in San Quintín, Baja California Don’t Have Social Security
“The separation between landowners, agricultural companies, and transnational corporations, combined with the multiple levels of labor intermediation, creates an extremely complicated context for workers.”
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Domestic Work: Social Security Earned, Compliance Pending
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.
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SITGM & Goodyear Reach Agreement on Wage Increase
The union secured a 5.8 percent wage increase for more than a thousand workers at the San Luis Potosí plant.
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Workers Party Senator Proposes Ban on Terms Human Resources and Human Capital in Businesses
“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.
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Working Amidst Poverty; Life in San Quintín
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.
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Mexico’s Cineteca Nacional Workers to Strike Tomorrow
In February, workers held a symbolic strike, demanding an end to reprisals and labor exploitation, as well as the payment of fair wages.
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Striking Workers at Tornel Rubber Call for Government Intervention
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.
