FRIDAY, APRIL 10
PROGRAM # 8851 12:00 PM PT
Mexico Edition.
Despite Mexico’s decree ordering non-essential work to stop, the foreign maquiladora industry keeps 95 percent of the Mexican workers in Ciudad Juárez and Matamoros working and without providing security measures, according to a well-known labor lawyer. She added that six employees of Lear Corporation died from Covid-19 (this data that has not been confirmed by the IMSS of the area, since laboratory studies are in process) and there are outbreaks of contagion in other plants, without any action by union leaders or labor authority. The lawyer pointed out that the decree lacked specifics about sanctions for non-compliance and guarantees for paid absences, and under threat of dismissal, thousands of workers in the maquiladora industry continue to work. In other topics, it is reported that despite the state of public health emergency and calls to keep a safe distance, thousands in the country take to the streets for Easter celebrations, and that the attacks and rejections against doctors and nurses multiply despite calls from the presidency not to stigmatize or discriminate against medical personnel, who are on the front line of the battle against the pandemic. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this program from Mexico City.
Guests: (recorded interview) Lawyer Susana Prieto Terrazas, leader, Movement “20-32”, Matamoros Tamaulipas, MX; (audio segment) Samuel Orozco, executive producer, Línea Abierta – Radio Bilingüe, Fresno, CA.
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