The Cross Border Labor Organizing Council (CBLOC) is a group of Portland labor activists, union members, students and community members who organize against free trade and build solidarity with workers rights struggles around the world.
Labor Delegation to Mexico
Purpose of Delegation:
With President-elect Obama's promise to renegotiate NAFTA once in office, the coming months are a crucially-important time to have a clear understanding of the changes that are needed and how to best take advantage of the opportunities presented. To help prepare ourselves and our allies, the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign and Cross Border Labor Organizing Council led a labor delegation to Mexico this spring to explore the question of cross-border opposition to NAFTA.
The purpose of this delegation was to:
- See for ourselves what working conditions in Mexico are really like and where U.S. jobs have gone;
- Hear from Mexican workers about why they oppose NAFTA, and the amazing work they have been doing to stop its implementation; and
- Explore what "NAFTA renegotiation" really means to workers on both sides of the border, and how we can work together to support trading relationships that actually improve quality of life in both the United States and Mexico.
Delegates met with workers, union officials and community leaders in the rural Mexican state of Tlaxcala and the border city Juarez, and returned inspired and better prepared than ever before to fight for real change on trade and the economy.
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