Mexican auto workers in Silao, Guanajuato, just scored a huge victory that has been years in the making. After first ridding themselves of a corrupt, business-friendly union last year, 6,500 workers at the massive General Motors plant in Silao voted this week on which union would represent them moving forward. On Thursday, Feb. 3, news broke that workers overwhelmingly voted to join the Independent National Auto Workers Union (Sindicato independiente nacional de trabajadores y trabajadoras de la industria automotriz), securing a major victory for rank and filers who have been fighting for a more independent and more democratic union.
In this interview, recorded before the union election took place, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with auto worker and labor organizer Israel Cervantes about this pivotal struggle and what the union election means for workers and the labor movement in Mexico and beyond. Israel Cervantes was one of the first workers at the Silao plant to begin organizing against both the corrupt union and the company. After working at the plant for 13 years, Cervantes was fired for organizing a demonstration of solidarity with striking GM workers in the US in 2019. He is now the leader of a new organization called Generando Movimiento (Generating Movement).
Read the transcript of this interview: https://therealnews.com/mexican-auto-workers-just-made-history-by-taking-back-their-union
Pre-Production/Studio/Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
Spanish-to-English translations provided by Bruce Hobson, coeditor and translator for the México Solidarity Project
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those mexican auto workers make $25.00 on a 12 hr shift??? wow thats $2.08 an hr
Shiba Inu hará que mucha gente pobre sea muy rica. En los próximos meses, su utilidad se ampliará y trabajarán en su propia cadena de bloques, asociaciones de restaurantes, publicidad, juegos y defi. Shiba será una moneda de todos los días con su propia tarjeta que se utilizará para entradas en el teatro para comprar comestibles. Compre algo y aléjese por un par de años, pero cómprelo muy pronto, está subiendo rápidamente. Por favor, sepa que esto es solo mi opinión, buena suerte.
My Father is from Mexico. I have been there many times before the age of eighteen. If you think the USA has a lot of corruption in it (which it does), it's by far worse in Mexico. I never want to set foot in that country again until it goes through a massive conversion. Sadly, the USA will become as bad eventually and I don't know where I'll go when it does.
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American auto workers unionized & they closed down plants. They out sourced to Mexico & other countries.
GM workers in Mexico make it said the wages range from 184.35 pesos to a maximum of 679.53 pesos per day. In dollars, that's about $8.97 to $33.05 per day. In China an average hourly wage of about $3.70, no wonder automakers love to ship production over seas, but hey its just capitalism, right. My point is this, how are US workers ever going to compete with these low wages?
Brilliant! Bravo! Thank you!
They make two dollars an hour! Jesus christ. Almost slavery.
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Wow, I'm glad to hear this. GM went to Mexico to keep from paying US workers a livable wage. Well, maybe GM will get it through their thick heads that the international community is also tired of this!
I hope that the worker leaders survive the turmoil.
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Great to see the rare piece of good news for labor. Onward.
Getting a strong union movement going in Mexico won't help that much if GM decides to put the whole plant on a barge. The whole problem has always been that capital is always more portable than labour.
Congratulations for your win and continued success to all. We have to stand up to the control, corruption and greed that affects us all no matter where we might live in the world.
Best of luck, keep up the good fight.
sad a video about makeup gets 100k views first few hours … people get the politicians they deserve
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It would be nice if our "leaders" in congress had not allowed these jobs to be shipped off to a foreign country.