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For First Time in Two Decades, U.S. Buys More From Mexico Than China
(www.nytimes.com)
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Current minimum wage is closer to 2 dollars an hour, still a long way to go but that's not considering benefits and pretty much all transportation and two meals a day are taken care of (in the city where I work).
It sucks but it's much better than outside the maquiladora market.
In fact the article you posted in more ways than that, I guess it's not updated since a long time ago but since always extra time has been paid at double the rate for the first 9 hours and triple rate for the next ones (maximum of 12 hours per week).
Thanks for the additional info. Sorry - that article I posted was not very well researched - I should have looked for something better, but was just making a point that inequity is still a big problem in a "prosperous" Mexico.
I appreciate you also confirming that working conditions in maquiladoras are accountable to some decent standards, and that they provide additional benefits - overtime pay rates being one of them, which is encouraging to hear - I wonder if that was due to labor unions or not.
Clearly, they are better places to work than many other local options. So for sure, not everything about maquiladoras is negative - and they are certainly not the root cause of disparity in North America. Thanks again for correcting the perception I might have given with that article.
Yeah, unions in mexico advanced legislation a lot in the last century, although legislation had become stagnant when the right wing party was in power for 12 years