SINTTIA Denounces Fraenkische for Collective Bargaining Violations
Workers detected excessive payroll deductions and anomalies in the savings fund at the German company.
Workers detected excessive payroll deductions and anomalies in the savings fund at the German company.
Early morning starts, picking a kind of modern “red gold” that grows in the south of Baja California.
With four workers shot and an intransigent employer, the union needs widespread solidarity.
What began as a workers’ protest escalated into an armed attack against those protecting the movement, with four workers shot.
“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.