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Introduction - 2004 Convention Report
Eighty-eight representatives from 37 organizations from the U.S., Mexico, and Canada join forces in Mexico City to examine strategies for struggles with transnational corporations, to study organizational regeneration, and to develop approaches for improving relations between worker centers and unions.
Enlace means link in Spanish, and that accurately describes what took place at the Enlace convention in Mexico City on February 27-28, 2004.
Chapter 1 - Organizing the working poor in Mexico and the U.S.
Javier Granado de Aquino and Andrea Fernandez, SINTTIM, present an overview of their current campaign against Korean transnational corporation Pung Kook.
The challenge of organizing low-wage workers in the U.S. and Mexico is different in some respects but remarkably similar in its basics.
Chapter 2 - Support for Campaigns – International Solidarity and Research
Robin Alexander, director of international affairs for United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, Lynda Yanz, of the Maquila Solidarity Network in Canada and Lorraine Clewer of the Workers Rights Consortium elaborated on the theme of international solidarity and the work their groups have done.
Chapter 3 - Problems in Our Movement and Strategies to Overcome Them
The point of departure for discussion on the second day of the convention was inevitably the disastrous state of the official labor movements in Mexico and the U.S.
Chapter 4 - The Linkages Driving Globalization from Below
Erline Browne, Domestic Workers United, shares her experiences of advocating for respect and recognition for domestic workers as delegates vote to include new members in Enlace.
“These linkages of workers are happening everywhere, at many levels, they are growing and having an impact,” said Tim Costello, director of the North American Alliance for Fair Employment, which monitors and promotes organization of workers in the “informal” economy—an estimated 18 million workers in the U.S. alone.