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18 Jun 2015

Author:
Joshua Partlow, The Washington Post

Workers may be losers in Mexico’s car boom

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 It wasn’t a planned strike, more an impromptu protest... n addition to long, strenuous hours, they said, they endured constant taunts from one assistant manager, who also had allegedly sexually harassed an employee. They refused to work until they could air their grievances with his superiors....  In an environment where these auto jobs are in demand, workers say they have little recourse in conflicts with management. A few weeks after Capetillo and his colleagues complained, they were fired or forced to resign — 17 workers at a plant that employs roughly 5,000 people. The months since then, they say, have been a losing battle against unresponsive union representatives and an apathetic state government...