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The remaking of the Mexican labor movement in the automotive industry
Ist Teil von
Journal of labor and society, 2019-03, Vol.22 (1), p.9-23
Ort / Verlag
Hoboken, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Erscheinungsjahr
2019
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In this article, we look at how economic and political restructuring in Mexico has transformed working conditions, informing new strategies of labor militancy. Our research shows that, despite fierce repression by private corporations, the government, and corrupt unions, Mexican workers organize in independent movements to demand freedom of association and collective bargaining by engaging in wildcat strikes and building international solidarity. We focus on two labor movements in the State of Coahuila that shed light on the strategic alliance between independent workers' movements in the automotive industry and the Miners Union. Our hypothesis is that this coalition serves two different but complementary goals: independent workers' movements aim at the democratization of union relations by fighting against corrupt company unions, while the Miners aspire to extend their representation from mining and the steel industry to the automotive sector by offering better working conditions to autoworkers. However, these actors seek to create different and opposing political wusacapes. The underground struggle of autoworkers in Coahuila provides a significant microperspective from which to analyze opportunities and contradictions for the Mexican labor movement posed by the recent election of president Andres Manuel López Obrador, in July 2018.