Workers Along Mexico Border Make a Push to Unionize Monica Ortiz Uribe - NPR.org
go to original December 21, 2015

The workers in this region make a huge variety of products, from flat-screen TVs, to car parts to electrical fuses that power entire cities. But they're up against industry giants that fuel more than half a trillion dollars in trade between the U.S. and Mexico.

Poor wages aren't the only issue. Workers at Lexmark claim they have endured sexual harassment by their superiors and are given inadequate safety gear.

A spokesman for Lexmark wouldn't comment on worker allegations in Juárez saying instead that the company was committed to open and honest conversation with its employees.

Some 300 workers from at least three other Juárez maquiladoras are protesting similar conditions and have petitioned the state to authorize their effort to unionize.

"It's not just a fight between a worker and some maquiladora, it's a matter of the life that everybody deserves to live," says Elizabeth Flores, a labor attorney in Juárez.

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