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2015年11月20日

作者:
David Bacon, The Nation

The maquiladora workers of juárez find their voice

…After more than a decade of silence, maquiladora workers in Ciudad Juárez have found their voice. The city, just across…Texas, is now the center of a growing rebellion of laborers in the border factories. At the gates to four plants, including…Foxconn complex, they have set up encampments, or plantons, demanding recognition of independent unions, and protesting firings and reprisals…About 255,000 people work directly in Juárez’s 330 maquiladoras…[A] single mother at the planton outside the ADC CommScope factory, describes grinding poverty…“…In the United States people make in one hour what it takes us all day to earn.”…In order to survive, some women were putting in two shifts, back to back, or even working three days straight through. When they protested harassment, overtime was cut off…According to…a professor…“The practices of the maquiladora industry toward the workers reveal a consume-and-dispose cycle.”…

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