Juarez City.- For 17 years, Mireya Mesa worked in the maquiladora industry, where she experienced labor injustices, since on more than one occasion she was denied her vacations and she had to put up with this treatment, since she needed the job to support her family.
The woman is part of the Rosa Luxemburg collective, which yesterday participated in the conference of the Center for Attention and Organization of Working People (CAOPT) and provided advice to people who have been victims of unjustified dismissals, late payments, discrimination or workplace harassment .
The event was called ‘Labor is political’, and was held in conjunction with the ProDESC community, on Custodia de la República street, in the second-hand market of the San Francisco neighborhood, where people were advised, mainly women who have experienced some labor injustice.
“I arrived here in Ciudad Juárez with the hope of a better future, a better salary, a better life, I begin to find myself with this need that we as maquiladora workers deny us vacations,” said the 46-year-old woman. .
She mentioned that she came to this city 25 years ago from Durango, in order to have a better future for herself and her family, and encountered many injustices that affected her and her co-workers.
The woman is part of the collective and this is how she helps people who have doubts or have been victims of injustice within their workplaces.
“I am a single mother, and right now I am very focused on this, on wanting to inform people how little or how much I have known through this group, so that they know that there are people who are interested in this problem,” she mentioned.
Alejandra Rodríguez Matamoros, coordinator of the CAOPT communication area, explained that every month they visit various sectors such as Parajes de Oriente, Las Torres and Ampliación Aeropuerto, where they have advised the community on various issues.
“This month we dedicate it to profits, because May 30 is the last day to request profits, we are advising people on how much they get, on what they have to do to receive them,” he said.
He added that in the months of June and July they will dedicate the days of decent work to the subject of vacations.
