Mexico-U.S. Border Program
Maquiladora Project
Location of program office: Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Geographical area served: Six cities at the
Texas-Mexico border: Matamoros, Reynosa, Río Bravo, Piedras Negras,
Ciudad Acuña, and Ciudad Juárez.
The Maquiladora Project's goals are:
1.
To improve the working and living conditions of workers in the maquiladora
industry along the Mexico-U.S. border; to impede the abuses and worsening of
the exploitation of those workers by companies and corporations, primarily
U.S. owned ones.
2. To help U.S. audiences to understand
the intersection of worker's rights, globalization,
and trade issues from the perspective developed in
the last 24 years by the AFSC-CFO partnership.
Objectives:
1. To empower the CFO leadership
of women maquiladora workers, and to support the CFO
in its development as an autonomous, worker-controlled
organization.
2. To contribute to the solution
of particular problems in targeted companies, through
research and interpretation for maquiladora workers
of company's finances, shareholder actions and by facilitating
contacts with corporate executives.
3. To strengthen the partnership
AFSC-CFO, and contribute through it to the education
of workers, communities of faith and the public in
the United States on labor and global economy issues.
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