Im 1990 in San Antonio, on the south side 1,250 workers were permanenetly taken off the time clock. This has continued and I do not have all the statst but again in 2004 800 employees were told to go home while contracts were signed with maquiladora ooerations which are mostly in the sister cities along cities such as Brownsville, El Paso, San Diego, Nogales a few smaller ones that have unions under control of the PAN, PRI or PRD which is better organized south of Mexico City D.F.

The Mexican jeans look the same and employ mainly women at wages that are improvements over rural wages but are dismal by their counterparts in what remains in the U.S watehouse and industrial plant operations.

Fuerza Unida was founded in 1990 as a grass roots group on the southside of San Antonio as wellas working with Los Angeles Sweatshop Watch who has fought and defended a number of cases throughout The Golden State especially in textile zones in Los Angeles. Help these people.