Movimientos: San Quintin
Slave in the Fields: A reporter goes undercover in the San Quintin Valley
By Kau Sirenio Pioquinto. Americas Program, July 16, 2015
El Vergel, four in the morning. Everything is dark, cold. Men and women dressed in jackets against the chill form in two lines, waiting their turn to enter the bathroom. Even from afar, the smell of excrement penetrates the morning air. Meanwhile, at the sinks others splash cold water in their faces to banish the sleepiness that still lingers in the pre-dawn hours. They all get ready to prepare the mid-morning snack, lunch and dinners that they’ll take with them as they head out to harvest cucumbers and tomatoes.
http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/15538
San Quintín Valley: From Labor Abuse to Labor Mobilization By Guillermo Castillo, Americas Program, July 16, 2015
The San Quintín Valley, one of Mexico’s highest producing agricultural areas with a market aimed principally at export, is also one of the places with the most abusive, unsanitary and harmful working conditions for day laborers. In this context, agricultural workers’ demonstrations last March demanding labor rights and fair working conditions were neither improvised nor gratuitous, but rather the result of on-going injustice.
http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/15532A Harvest of Justice in San Quintin? By Bertha Rodríguez Santos, Americas Program, May 18, 2015
The farm workers of the San Quintin Valley have gotten the federal government to commit to facilitating negotiations for a wage hike, the central demand of the more than 80,000 agricultural laborers in this region of Baja California. But Lucila Hernandez, a spokesperson for the movement, warns that the agreement is still not a clear victory. Representatives of the Alliance of National, State and Municipal Organizations for Social Justice succeeded on May 14 — after negotiations with representatives from federal and state agencies that lasted more than 14 hours on end — in opening up negotiations starting June 4 to establish and formalize agreements. The central bargaining point is the wage increase to 200 pesos that is at the core of the farm workers’ movement. The wage increase is the only outstanding point of a list of 14 agreements reached between the Alliance and the government on May 14.
http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/15146La disputa por registro sindical
Tras las negociaciones de abril, la Alianza sufrió una ruptura; hoy existen dos proyectos sindicales, uno apoyado por PRD de la Ciudad de México, y otro, el que cuenta con la mayoría de los delegados de Alianza, apoyado por UNT, la nueva central obrera encabezada por SME y la AFL-CIO. La controversia entre ambos proyectos se describe en los enlaces que siguen:
http://jornadabc.mx/tijuana/11-11-2015/organizacion-sindical-la-discordia-entre-jornaleros
http://www.4vientos.net/?p=40375
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2015/11/17/politica/009n2pol
http://jornadabc.mx/tijuana/16-11-2015/apoyan-en-los-angeles-creacion-de-otro-sindicato-jornalero
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