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Article

2 Nov 2015

Auteur:
Kent Paterson, Fnsnews

Behind Ciudad Juarez’s new labor movement

…[R]ecently, movements for better pay and working conditions- and union representation- have emerged at four different companies-Foxconn, Lexmark, ADC/Commscope and Eaton. Hundreds of workers have participated in street protests, hunger strikes and leafleting…Several former workers of [Commscope] complained…about abusive treatment by company management that included shouts, insults and arbitrary changes in work shifts. The workers said they had been fired for forming an independent union…“Who thinks that a father or a single mother can provide food, education and health care for their children on 90 pesos (less than six dollars) a day?” labor attorney…

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