Wednesday, 13 February 2019
quote [ A Mexican union has declared total victory in a mass strike at 48 border assembly plants, but now the movement has spawned a storm of wildcat walkouts at other businesses. The union won 20 per cent wage increases at all 48 “maquiladora” factories in Matamoros, a city across the border from Brownsville, Texas.
The Industrial Workers and Laborers’ Union also won a one-time bonus of about 32,000 pesos, about $1,685 at current exchange rates. The strike involved about 25,000 workers. Now workers at about a dozen non-union businesses and factories organized by other unions have started wildcat walkouts to demand the same increases. ]
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Background on the Mexican strikes:The rising of the maquiladora workers
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Also Comrade Cher is apparently on board with a general strike. Is this even real life anymore? :D