Sentence examples for maquiladora workers from inspiring English sources

And as layoffs continue, some 1.15 million maquiladora workers ponder their options.

The majority of maquiladora workers in Latin America are women, and in some areas children are also employed.

A bus stops and a load of maquiladora workers climb out and stand around for a while, chatting.

The press clips made it clear that the victims were for the most part maquiladora workers, high-school students, and shop clerks.

Last fall, gunmen apparently looking for a rival fired on a bus carrying maquiladora workers near Ciudad Juárez, killing four people.

For his documentary film "Maquilapolis," the artist Sergio de la Torre trained maquiladora workers to use digital video cameras so they could record their own lives.

To Angelica Morales, a maquiladora worker transplanted to Ciudad Acuña from Monclova, four hours south, the reason is clear enough.

In Mexico, for example, which has lost nearly half a million manufacturing jobs and 500 maquiladora manufacturers, workers earn four times what their Chinese counterparts do.

Since the 1980s, Juarez has mushroomed into an industrial center whose economy is fueled by multinational factories, or maquiladoras, that draw workers from across the country.

Not even an unshakeable fear instilled in most of the 1.3 million Juárez residents can curb the success of the factories, or maquiladoras, where assembly-line workers earn, on average, $1.60 to $2 hourly.

Though maquiladoras have attracted many workers from rural areas as a source of stable jobs, the combustible mix of economic desperation, neoliberal trade policy, and multinational corporate power has, according to advocates, stifled any regulatory system.