Matamoros Strike (2019)

70,000 people across 45 factories launched a wildcat strike in the town of Matamoros, on the Mexican side of the US-Mexican border on the 15th of January, 2019.
== Background ==
The strike is over low wages, high company union fees and unsafe working conditions that have been compared to sweatshops.
== Events ==
Strikers attended an assembly of two thousand people and decided to hold a wildcat strike. They have blocked entrance to the factories and have guarded them day and night, setting up cafeterias and other amenities for the strikers. Demanding a 20% wage increase and eight-hour day, the capitalists have threatened to fire the workers, and have threatened them with violent retailiationhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/01/15/mexi-j15.html.
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