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Clip from the Matamoros Toxic Exposure Section
Workers from Matamoros (across the border from Brownsville, Texas) talk about lack of protection from toxic chemicals in US and Canadian owned maquiladoras, and the birth defects and deaths of their children that they blame on this exposure.
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Clip from the Echlin/Han Young Section
An excerpt from testimony at hearings held by the U.S. Labor Department's National Administrative Office for NAFTA. The hearings concern a complaint brought by U.S. unions that Mexico failed to enforce its labor laws during the struggle to create an independent union at Echlin's ITAPSAS plant in Mexico
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Clip on Apple Workers Struggle in Washington
An excerpt from a section that shows Mexican, Canadian and US workers and NGOs trying to aid workers fighting for the right to organize the apple industry in Washington State.
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Clip on International Struggle over Custom Trim
A case history of the struggle at Custom Trim in Valle Hermosa, Mexico and in Waterloo, Canada. Narrated by Mexican and Canadian participants.
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Clip on Role of the
Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras (CJM)
and on the Auto Trim/Custom Trim Hearings before the US NAFTA National Administrative Office
Workers at the two facilities filed a complaint based on Mexican failure to enforce its own health and safety standards in the Maquiladoras. Martha Ojeda of the CJM comments on the lack of results.
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Clip on May Day in Mexico
and the New Union Movement
The historical May Day on which for the first time a strong independent labor movement manifests itself separately from the unions controlled by the traditional political party, the PRI.
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