BROWNSVILLE, TX / ACCESSWIRE / May 30, 2023 / Lic. Olga Patricia Sosa Ruíz, the Head of the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, recently conducted an official tour of the NovaLink maquiladora in Matamoros
Strikes in Matamoros, Mexico spread in face of threats by union, police and National Guard
On Monday, about 400 workers at nine maquiladora factories in Matamoros, Mexico, a major industrial city on the border with Brownsville, Texas, joined a strike to demand a 15 percent wage increase and a bonus of 10,157 pesos ($514).
The strikers gathered outside of most of the plants before daybreak and called on their co-workers to join them. Some chanted, “Join us! Join us!” At the furniture maker Kwalu and the car seat maker GDI International, the strikers decided to down their tools inside the plants.
Striking Matamoros workers in January 2019 with banner declaring, The union and companies kill the working class