| They had even reserved a storeroom in the maquiladora workers' barrio of Maclovio Rojas to house the confiscated machines. |
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| The piece restages the 12-hour interrogation of a maquiladora laborer accused of attempting to unionize workers. |
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| The maquiladora sector is governed by a slew of local, national and transnational laws. |
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| First of all, there is no question that the maquiladora program has encouraged foreign investment and created jobs in Mexico. |
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| When you look at the maquiladora industries in Latin America, they have not elevated the standard of living of the average Mexican or Salvadoran. |
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| It's provided cheap labour for the maquiladora zones, and they're selling it back into the same area. |
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| The suspect corn flour was fashioned into taco shells at a Pepsi-Co maquiladora in Mexicali, Mexico, which also turns out that country's numero uno snack food, Sabritas. |
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| The absence of recognition for the rights of women maquiladora workers is an acute example of this phenomenon. |
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| As you are probably aware, the Mexican maquiladora program predated NAFTA by almost 30 years. |
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| I would challenge anybody to go across the maquiladora zone and ask how people are making out. |
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| Tariffs have been slashed, banks and pensions privatised, and maquiladora zones set up. |
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| The purpose of this study is to document the exercise of human and labour rights by women maquiladora workers in the state of Coahuila. |
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| And that can be proven by job loss, by subcontracting to third world countries, and by the maquiladora areas in Mexico and Central America. |
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| What are her options for survival and what realistic alternatives are there to the maquiladora? |
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| So he is investing in a new factory in Mexico, a maquiladora on the doorstep of his biggest market, the United States. |
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| Is it fair to say that the maquiladora industry, which assembles textiles for export, has limited growth potential? |
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| Its mission focuses on the commitment to improve working and living conditions for maquiladora workers. |
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| Finally, the relationship of women maquiladora workers with the official unions does not facilitate their organization. |
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| Dialogue has being initiated in the northern region between maquiladora workers and individuals, organizations and groups on both sides of the border who are concerned about the workers' living conditions. |
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| We are very pleased with Calfrost s progress in the maquiladora market, said Robert Panora, President and COO of Tecogen. |
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| There is the mind-numbing spectacle of the maquiladora export processing zone for all the proof you will ever need that free trade dishonours the standards of North America. |
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| I would like to focus this afternoon on the impact of NAFTA and the trade liberalization policies of the Mexican government on workers in the maquiladora factories in that country. |
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| In fact, after 30 years of the maquila free trade pilot project, there are, with one or two possible exceptions, no independent democratic unions in Mexico's 3,500 maquiladora factories. |
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| In conjunction with independent human rights centres and public agencies, support and promote the production of a national manual on the rights of women workers in the maquiladora industry. |
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| While some might view this as an end of the maquiladora program in Mexico, other Mexican commentators have observed that after 2001 all of Mexico may well become one giant maquila. |
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| The existing laws and standards will be analyzed with a view to identifying the obstacles to the application and respect of women maquiladora workers' rights. |
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| In the case of Coahuila, the government has routinely showed preference for the maquiladora owners, government-aligned unions and directives that penalize and discriminate against working women. |
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| Work with other networks and organizations to improve the quality of life of maquiladora workers, and for sustainable development, social justice, human rights, and environmental stability in the host communities. |
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| In sum, another face of the maquiladora industry is being seen with the heightened visibility of working women who, with their contributions, have dignified the demand for fair and decent employment. |
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| But with the few dozen euros she earns in a maquiladora, a firm located in a free trade zone, where she works a 70-hour week in very tough conditions, the only accommodation she could find was in a shantytown. |
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| As of February 2013, MFI is the only maquiladora of its kind to have a Corporate Mexican Customs Broker License. |
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| This migration of production has led to the creation of the maquiladora industry, perhaps the largest and most recognized residual of Mexico-Texas trade. |
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| If such maquiladora projects are to be the model for Haiti's economic future, they will simply create future generations of sweatshop labor at subsistence wages. |
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