Thursday, May 31, 2007

Opening Salvo

This blog will document the plight of the workers at the CimaTextiles factory in Villa Nueva, Guatemala, and the activism in solidarity with those women.

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Introduction

The workers at the Guatemalan factory CimaTextiles formed a union in 2001. They won a collective bargaining agreement in 2003, and since then have struggled to protect their gains. The corporation which owns the factory, Choi & Shin Co., Inc., consistently tries to break the union's back, and has since its inception. etc. etc. Here is the union's wiki. Here are the pictures from the protest. Here is the urgent action.

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