Post-NAFTA Labor Rights Violations in Mexico: After NAFTA Fight for Workers Rights
Author: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
Since NAFTA was approved by Congress, a number of major U.S. corporations have blatantly violated the rights of their Mexican employees. This packet of information focuses on the recent firings which have occurred at the General Electric motor plant in Juarez and the Honeywell plant in Chihuahua. It also includes information regarding the submissions which were recently filed with the USNAO under the labor side of the agreement of NAFTA (NAALC) by the UE and Teamsters. There can be little doubt of the anti-union motivation behind these discharges. Indeed, General Electric management advised one of the workers that he was being fired for hosting a meeting with UE members at his house. Meanwhile, Honeywell interrogated employees at its Chihuahua facility for up to four hours, offered to pay for the names of other women who were involved in the union, and in the last two weeks of November fired twenty union activists. The attached material provides fairly detailed information about the situations in Juarez and Chihuahua and more limited information about events in other parts of the border. Overall, we believe that it provides a dramatic picture of labor rights violations which are being committed by U.S. corporations operating in Mexico.
Since NAFTA was approved by Congress, a number of major U.S. corporations have blatantly violated the rights of their Mexican employees. This packet of information focuses on the recent firings which have occurred at the General Electric motor plant in Juarez and the Honeywell plant in Chihuahua. It also includes information regarding the submissions which were recently filed with the USNAO under the labor side of the agreement of NAFTA (NAALC) by the UE and Teamsters. There can be little doubt of the anti-union motivation behind these discharges. Indeed, General Electric management advised one of the workers that he was being fired for hosting a meeting with UE members at his house. Meanwhile, Honeywell interrogated employees at its Chihuahua facility for up to four hours, offered to pay for the names of other women who were involved in the union, and in the last two weeks of November fired twenty union activists. The attached material provides fairly detailed information about the situations in Juarez and Chihuahua and more limited information about events in other parts of the border. Overall, we believe that it provides a dramatic picture of labor rights violations which are being committed by U.S. corporations operating in Mexico.
