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DESCRIPTION:Visitors are welcome to attend\n\nReport to the San Francisco Labor Council 
 by a delegation representing Bay Area groups that went to the U.S.-Mexican 
 border to report on free trade policies and immigration policies.\n\nThe 
 groups include the San Francisco Living Wage Coalition, Bay Area Committee 
 in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Global Exchange, Marin Task 
 Force on the Americas, School of the Americas Watch West and Trabajo 
 Cultural Caminante.\n\nThe Bay Area delegation went to Nogales, Arizona, 
 from October 6 to 10, to participate in a convergence on the border, in 
 which more than 430 human rights, social justice, faith-based, labor and 
 immigrant rights groups participated, to highlight the militarization of 
 the southern border, the U.S.-sponsored militarization of Central American 
 borders, and the human rights crisis of an unjust immigration 
 system.\n\nMembers of the delegation continued to Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, 
 from October 11 to 14, to support Mexican maquiladora, or factory, workers 
 who had been striking for an independent union, to highlight the failures 
 of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in protecting workers 
 rights, and to demonstrate the dangers of the Trans-Pacific Partnership 
 (TPP). Factory owners are depressing wages and working conditions in 
 Mexican factories in anticipation of the TPP.\n\nThe delegation met with 
 workers from 10 maquiladoras, who described mass firings of workers in 
 retaliation for union activities, denial of union recognition by the 
 government, visits by the federal police, black listing, and a failure of 
 the Mexican labor authorities to defend workers labor rights.\n\nThe 
 delegation also met with the political and economic section of the U.S. 
 consulate in Juarez to raise concerns that the 2012 labor law reforms of 
 President Enrique Peña Nieto are not protecting workers’ rights to 
 organize and that the U.S. State Department has been pushing Mexico and 
 Guatemala to militarize their borders to prevent asylum seekers from 
 reaching the United States.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/11/27/18794182.php
SUMMARY:Immigration and Free Trade Policies
LOCATION:Plumbers Hall, 1621 Market Street (near Gough), San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/11/27/18794182.php
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