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Support the Struggle for Labor Rights in Mexico

Demand a thorough investigation in Tridonex workers' new "rapid response" labor enforcement case to help stop union-busting and intimidation along the border

Unions and fair trade advocates from Mexico and the United States have filed the first “rapid response” labor rights case under the revised North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on behalf of workers at the Tridonex auto parts plant .

Standing up against an infamous company-backed "protection union," hundreds of Tridonex workers who have supported an independent union have been threatened and fired.

More so, the state government has blocked the workers’ request for a vote on independent union representation and has gone so far as to arrest their attorney, Susana Prieto Terrazas, first locking her up in a COVID-ridden state penitentiary and only letting her go after imposing a punitive "internal exile” that forced her to another state.

This case is a crucial test of whether the revised NAFTA deal’s labor terms will actually help working people. Please email Congress now.

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Subject: Support the Tridonex USMCA “Rapid Response” Labor Rights Complaint

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Please insist on a fair, thorough and expeditious investigation into the labor rights complaint recently filed under the revised North American Free Trade Agreement's (NAFTA's) “rapid response” mechanism by the AFL-CIO, SEIU, Public Citizen and the Sindicato Nacional Independiente de Trabajadores de Industrias y de Servicios MOVIMIENTO 20/32 (SNITIS). The case centers around workers’ struggle for an independent union at the Tridonex auto parts factory in Tamaulipas, Mexico. For too long, the Triodnex plant has been represented by an infamous “protection union” that signed a contract with the company that workers had no role in negotiating and never got to vote on. Dissatisfied with their situation, many of the Tridonex workers affiliated with an independent union as part of the “20/32 Movement” that won significant pay raises for workers at a number of maquiladoras along the US/Mexico border in recent years. Since then, however, hundreds of Tridonex workers associated with the independent union have been threatened and fired. More so, the Tamaulipas state government has blocked the workers’ request for a vote on independent union representation and has gone so far as to arrest their attorney, Susana Prieto Terrazas, first locking her up in a COVID-ridden state penitentiary and only letting her go after imposing a punitive "internal exile” that forced her to another state. These actions have combined to have a major chilling effect on labor organizing at the company and throughout the region. The Tridonex workers deserve form the union of their choosing free from harassment, dismissal and intimidation, and Prieto deserves to have all the bogus charges and penalties imposed upon her dropped. This case is a crucial test of whether the revised NAFTA pact’s recent labor enforcement terms will actually help working people in either country, and it requires your attention and comment. As you undoubtedly understand, big corporations like moving jobs to places like Tamaulipas specifically because workers there are so exploited. Indeed, in 2016, the company that owns the Tridonex plant moved its brake division from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Mexico laying off 1,300 workers. Another 680 workers were laid off or furloughed in 2019. Working people throughout North America deserve better. Please do all in your power to make sure this “rapid response" case proceeds quickly and fairly, and thank you for your attention.

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