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December 2001-January
2002
Work in Agua Prieta, Sonora & Douglas, Arizona
Feature Articles:
Sewing
is for China? Worker-Owned Sewing Companies in Sonora and Arizona
by Greg Bloom, FNS Editor
Zita Ruiz and Leticia Mendoza, two long-time, Agua Prieta
garment workers, are setting up an employee-owned and run sewing
business. Both women worked for years at a company called Sewgood.
When the company closed, about two years ago, the women and other
employees were supposed to have received--under Mexican law--three
months pay, vacation pay, their Christmas bonus (aguinaldo),
twelve days pay for every year they worked and more. But things
didn't work out that way.
Agua
Prieta's Comité Fronterizo de Obreras
by Greg Bloom, FNS Editor
Facing the economic uncertainty of an ever-changing, global
economy and resistance from existing unions and companies, it's
not easy for a group like Agua Prieta's Comité Fronterizo
de Obreras to advance toward its goals of better unions, wages
and protections for Mexican workers. Originally founded along
the Tamaulipas border, the Comité Fronterizo de Obreras
(Women Workers' Border Committee, CFO) has been active in Agua
Prieta, Sonora for four years. However, because of the problems
that people in Agua Prieta are faced with, it has been impossible
for the CFO to move quickly toward replacing unions that it calls
"junk."
Border
Security in the Wake of September 11th
by Jason Ackleson, PhD, New Mexico State
University
The events of September 11th portend both short and potentially
far-reaching implications for U.S. frontiers with Canada and
Mexico. This brief and preliminary review will look at some of
the main issues and changes emerging in U.S. border security
and immigration policy in the wake of the terrorist attacks on
America. The analysis proceeds by placing recent developments
in the context of border security measures imposed in the 1990s
as well as the pressure for free economic interaction across
American frontiers under the North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA).
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