| They have come in variably from the south or interior of Mexico to work in what are called the maquiladoras. |
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| In Mexico's maquiladoras, the employers do not hesitate to deal brutally with workers who try to set up independent trade unions. |
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| Women working at maquiladoras are the bearers of labor sought for alliance by monopoly capital in a new international division of labor. |
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| Women staff the maquiladoras and the sweatshops that produce the cheap goods of the global economy. |
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| Since NAFTA, the number of workers in the border assembly plants known as maquiladoras has doubled to one million. |
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| Mexico's much-vaunted maquiladoras are shutting their doors, as companies flee for China and other still cheaper labor markets. |
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| The rights of ordinary Canadians and ordinary people who work in the maquiladoras and areas like that are being eroded and displaced. |
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| She is currently completing a book about the Mexican women who work in maquiladoras for American-owned multinationals along the United States-Mexican border. |
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| Since 2002, 300 maquiladoras have moved from Mexico to China. |
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| So the maquiladoras are having to up their game, moving into more sophisticated types of manufacturing and doing more product design. |
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| Health problems in the maquiladoras are compounded by a complete absence of job security. |
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| The dollar is weak, and countries like China and Indonesia is more than happy to play hosts to the next generation of maquiladoras. |
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| In spite of these limitations, women in the maquiladoras have made heroic efforts to organize and take action. |
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| Of Mexico's more than 3500 maquiladoras, 344 are in Jalisco. |
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| Then we dumped those people, as virtual slave labor, in maquiladoras in the northern states of Mexico, or we brought them across the border as cheap labor, here. |
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| Beyond the Borders will support grass-roots environmental organizations in Mexico like Vida Digna that are fighting air and water pollution from maquiladoras. |
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| The jobs that women in the maquiladoras are doing are not good jobs. |
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| However, the growth of the maquiladoras has not been accompanied by integrated regional development policies nor an alternative economic policy to strengthen domestic industry. |
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| The maquiladoras were devised in 1965 as an alternative to the bracero programme, then just ended, that allowed a number of migrant Mexican farm-workers into the United States. |
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| Large corporations, some of them Canadian, are violating international labour standards with total impunity in those maquiladoras, whose output is intended exclusively for export. |
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| Particularly hard-hit are car makers and maquiladoras, the manufacturing plants concentrated on the northern border that make goods from imported materials for re-export. |
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| In 2001, the maquiladoras will lose some of their tax breaks. |
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| Many of the maquiladoras, factories set up just on the Mexican side of the border to benefit from lower wages and land costs, have specialised in making parts for Detroit. |
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| It will undoubtedly be recalled that the Americans, fearing that their factories would relocate to what were called the maquiladoras, along the Mexican border, demanded a parallel agreement on the environment. |
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| But what's happening is that production has left this country, and in this case the province of Ontario, and has gone to two or three different places in the maquiladoras in Mexico. |
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| Half of the delegation will go to Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, a city along the U. S. border that is built almost entirely around export processing zones and maquiladoras, factories that employ cheap local workers. |
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| Other bridges carry rumbling lorries and mournfully-hooting trains laden with flat-screen TVs or car parts from Mexican maquiladoras, but also American-made machines and components heading south. |
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| Many of the maquiladoras are located in the Otay Mesa and Florido sections of Tijuana. |
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| There is also reverse traffic, both of workers traveling to maquiladoras in Mexico and those purchasing services or seeking entertainment in Tijuana. |
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