Comparing this system to our model of top-down management demonstrated that alternative strategies in which workers voices are heard are possible. With a broad vision of social and intellectual improvement, the workers designed educational programs in language, computer skills, primary and secondary school education and job training that are available to plant workers. The UE delegation also spoke with workers currently engaged in labor strikes and visited the Morales Print Shop strike site in Mexico City. The strikers, mostly women with an average of 30 years with the company, had black and red strike banners hanging around the guard shack, which they maintain 24 hours a day. With help from the FAT, the striking print shop workers appeal is moving toward a final legal resolution.
Strikers stick together like true brothers and sisters.
I couldn t believe the conditions, when I learned what people actually made. She visited several UE locals and spoke about labor conditions in Mexico and the need for worker solidarity. UE members had the opportunity to speak with other Mexican labor, political, and human rights activists. Later, Mexican activists in agricultural reform explained how changes in the Mexican Constitution over land ownership had displaced peasants, causing huge migrations into urban areas. This change allowed multinational agri-businesses more control over land and food supply, while creating a pool of impoverished workers.