Often these organizers are branded as terrorists by the government-run newspapers, while others are blacklisted and become unemployable by any company. One organizer's house was burned to the ground in a further attempt to intimidate him after drive-by shootings failed to wane his resolve. Mexican workers are fighting to make major changes in the policies adopted by these global companies and the corrupt government officials who benefit by ignoring the pleas of their constituents. These unscrupulous companies will go to any lengths to increase their profits and deny their workforce an honest day's pay for an honest day's work. For one thing, such a fight will soon arrive at our doorstep.
Global companies are on the attack against the global workforce.
All indications lead us to believe that these companies will do whatever they can to erode established working conditions. The U.S. has seen companies lay off thousands of workers, not to save the company from financial ruin, but just to increase their profits for that particular period. These and many similar scenarios are taking the battlefield to the workplace arena. Perhaps the new President of Mexico, Vicente Fox Quesada, can bring about the necessary changes to alleviate the pressures that negatively affect the Mexican workers. He has promised to tear down the corrupt and inefficient legacies of the past and to erect modern and rational practices in their place.