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How Mexican Tire Workers Won Ownership of Their Plant With a 3yr Strike and Are Now Running It
Can Worker-Owners Run a Big Factory?
How Mexican Tire Workers Won Ownership of Their Plant With a Three-Year Strike and Are Now Running It Themselves
by Jane Slaughter
Part 1: Mexican Workers Win Ownership of Tire Plant With Three-Year Strike
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But in Mexico a giant-sized worker cooperative has been building tires since 2005. The factory competes on the world market, employs 1,050 co-owners, and pays the best wages and pensions of any Mexican tire plant.
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Taking over their plant was not the workers' idea. Continental Tire proposed to sell it to them -- after the union backed management into a corner so tight the owners wanted nothing more to do with it.
But to get to that point workers had to wage a three-year strike and what we in the U.S. call a "comprehensive campaign." Workers say it was not just one tactic that won the day, but a combination of relentless pressures.
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The evening of December 16, 2001, boiler room workers came to the plant and found a notice on the front gate: Closed.
They called union leaders immediately. Guards were mounted to keep management from taking out the machinery. Two days later an assembly was called, with almost all the 940 workers in attendance.
...
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2013/slaughter040413.html
How Mexican Tire Workers Won Ownership of Their Plant With a Three-Year Strike and Are Now Running It Themselves
by Jane Slaughter
Part 1: Mexican Workers Win Ownership of Tire Plant With Three-Year Strike
...
But in Mexico a giant-sized worker cooperative has been building tires since 2005. The factory competes on the world market, employs 1,050 co-owners, and pays the best wages and pensions of any Mexican tire plant.
...
Taking over their plant was not the workers' idea. Continental Tire proposed to sell it to them -- after the union backed management into a corner so tight the owners wanted nothing more to do with it.
But to get to that point workers had to wage a three-year strike and what we in the U.S. call a "comprehensive campaign." Workers say it was not just one tactic that won the day, but a combination of relentless pressures.
...
The evening of December 16, 2001, boiler room workers came to the plant and found a notice on the front gate: Closed.
They called union leaders immediately. Guards were mounted to keep management from taking out the machinery. Two days later an assembly was called, with almost all the 940 workers in attendance.
...
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2013/slaughter040413.html
A must read
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