Workers Without Frontiers

By Nancy Haque

From day labourers standing on street corners to workers whose jobs have been shifted to lower wage economies, the US Jobs With Justice movement is using creative campaigning methods to build solidarity across communities and across borders.

A possibly surprising example of cross border action occurred when workers who had been made unemployed in Kentucky by the factory closing and re-opening in low wage Mexico smuggled safety equipment from the Kentucky factory to the Mexican one after they had seen the appalling conditions the Mexican workers had to endure.

(Red Pepper; issue 145, September 2006)