Tijuana Maquiladora Tour: May 11, 2013

Tijuana Maquiladora Tour
Come to learn about Tijuana communities and workers'
conditions and struggles!

Saturday, May 11, 9 am to 3 pm

 

– Important Notice:

·         Citizens returning from Mexico should present an U.S. passport. (Otherwise, they need an official ID, birth certificate, and waiting in line when returning to the U.S. for a period of time to be decided by the border gate officer.) More information: the U.S. State Dept. web site: http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_5815.html.

·         All tour participants must read the US travel alert to Mexico and sign the tour waiver. Please read the attached file.

 

– Schedule (There may be slight variations from tour to tour.)

·      9:00 am sharp- San Ysidro/Tijuana border-bus station. We will walk together to cross the border gate and travel to our locations in Tijuana using chartered buses for transportation.

·      9:15 am- The crosses at the border: More than 7,000 immigrants have died trying to cross the border since 1994, when NAFTA was imposed.

·      9:30 am- Otay Industrial Park, Sanyo and other maquiladoras: workers’ labor conditions, labor rights and struggles

NOTE: We will visit the Tijuana industrial area but won’t enter any factory.

·      11:15 am- Rio Alamar, or how maquiladoras, distorted urban development and wild industrialization define Tijuana

·      12:00 pm- Foxconn: the largest maquiladora in both Tijuana and the world

·      12:45 pm- Lunch

·      1:15 pm:- Group dialogue about the experience; time for questions and comments

·      2:00 pm- Working women in Tijuana are organizing artisan cooperatives and promoting an alternative economy. They will bring their handcrafts to the tour. To learn in advance
about these cooperatives, please go to: ollincallicm.blogspot.com  

·      3:00 pm- Return to the bus station

 

– Donations

 

·      $30 regular, $20 students, $ 50 solidarity

·      Donations cover the bus, lunch, and a donation to the workers’ organizations.

·      For tour registration go here: sdmaquila.org

 

Sponsored by Colectivo Ollin Calli Tijuana, San Diego Maquiladora Workers' Solidarity Network
and Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras

Tijuana Maquiladora Tour: March 23

TIJUANA MAQUILADORA TOUR
Come to learn about Tijuana communities and workers'
conditions and struggles!

Saturday, March 23, 9 am to 3 pm

 

 

– Important Notice:

·         Citizens returning from Mexico should present an U.S. passport. (Otherwise, they need an official ID, birth certificate, and waiting in line when returning to the U.S. for a period of time to be decided by the border gate officer.) More information: the U.S. State Dept. travel alert “Mexico”

·         All tour participants must read the US travel alert to Mexico and sign the tour waiver. Please read the attached file.

 

– Schedule (There may be slight variations from tour to tour.)

·      9 am sharp- San Ysidro/Tijuana border-bus station. We will walk together to cross the border gate and travel to our locations in Tijuana using chartered buses for transportation.

·      9:15 am- The crosses at the border: More than 7,000 immigrants have died trying to cross the border since 1994, when NAFTA was imposed.

·      9:30 am- Otay Industrial Park, Sanyo and other maquiladoras: workers’ labor conditions, labor rights and struggles

NOTE: We will visit the Tijuana industrial area but won’t enter any factory.

·      11:15 am- Rio Alamar, or how maquiladoras, distorted urban development and wild industrialization define Tijuana

·      12:00 pm- Foxconn: the largest maquiladora in both Tijuana and the world

·      12:45 pm- Lunch

·      1:15 pm:- Group dialogue about the experience; time for questions and comments

·      2:00 pm- Working women in Tijuana are organizing artisan cooperatives and promoting an alternative economy. They will bring their handcrafts to the tour. To learn in advance about these cooperatives, please go to http://www.ollincallicm.blogspot.com/

·      3:00 pm- Return to the bus station

 

– Donations

·      $30 regular, $20 students, $ 50 solidarity

·      Donations cover the bus, lunch, and a donation to the workers’ organizations.

 

For tour reservations go

SD Network Tour Reservations

 

 

Sponsored by Colectivo Ollin Calli Tijuana, Colectivo Chilpancingo for Environmental Justice, San Diego Maquiladora Workers' Solidarity Network, Environmental Health Coalition, and Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras

 

We need your help with the continuous struggle in the maquiladoras.

San Diego Maquiladora Workers´ Solidarity Network

Ollin Calli

 

There are about 600 factories in Tijuana. Workers are frequently exploited, poorly paid, and even physically and sexually abused. Conditions in the maquiladora factories are often perilous and can endanger the lives of employees.

Many of the workers are indigenous women and immigrants from the less developed rural areas of Mexico. They are not accustomed to factory work and are unaware of their rights. They have little experience in organizing and fighting for justice and dignity.

In 2010 there were more than 6,000 labor conflicts in Tijuana.

Ollin Calli was formed in 2009 to advise, encourage and represent workers in the maquiladora factories as well as other workers in Tijuana industry.

In September 2010 700 maquiladora employees walked out of the Sharp electronics factory in Rosarito. The company would not recognize the workers’ committee. The company called in the police to confront the workers.

The workers’ committee contacted Ollin Calli, who gave them political and legal advice. The workers won a 4% pay raise, transportation to and from the factory and punishment of those in the management who had sexually abused female workers.

What does Ollin Calli do?

§  Supports the struggles of local communities for a pollution free and sustainable environment.

§  Promotes fair trade as opposed to free trade.

§  Provides a space for learning and support so that workers themselves can learn to defend their human and labor rights.

§  Focuses on empowerment leading toward achieving decent working conditions, occupational health and a better quality of life.

§  Provides legal advice to workers in Tijuana and surrounding districts.

§  Makes and sells beautiful handicrafts to help support their mission.

Ollin Calli mobilizes the people and organizes workshops. In these workshops they address human and labor rights, occupational health and sexual harassment. They raise awareness of sexual and reproductive health.

Ollin Calli conducts monthly maquiladora tours where we take groups concerned people in the U.S. across the border to spend a day getting to know the members of Ollin Calli and learning about the labor struggles first hand.

They have now given legal advice to almost 350 individual workers.

Although Ollin Calli is a local organization, they have global impact. Ollin Calli works with factories that supply a wide range of products to the United States and Canada – car parts, televisions, electronic goods, clothing and even children’s toys. These goods are frequently manufactured in a system which exploits and mistreats Mexican workers.

We are turning to you to ask for your generous help so that Ollin Calli can continue and grow. The challenges are huge. Their dedication is strong. They need your financial support. Their office rent is $250 a month. Water and electricity and phone bills are extra. Their total monthly expenses are $1,500.

We call on your generosity so that Ollin Calli can continue supplying legal advice, organizing workshops and most crucially publicizing their presence among the working people of Tijuana.

The San Diego Maquiladora Workers Solidarity Network works to support Ollin Calli from the U.S. side of the border. We gratefully accept donations. The SDMWSN is a 501(C)(3) organization. Donations qualify as charitable contributions for tax purposes. All your donations are forwarded to Ollin Calli.

Go to our website to process donations: http://sdmaquila.org/

 

 Donations in the US are fully tax deductible.

Learn more about Ollin Calli in their website (in Spanish): Ollin Calli http://ollincallicm.blogspot.com/

Read Ollin Calli appeal letter here in: Ollin Calli letter (English) and Carta de Ollin Calli (Spanish)

 Thank you very much

Ollin Calli

San Diego Maquiladora Workers Solidarity Network

 

 

 

 

 

Tijuana Maquiladora Tour: Dec 15

TIJUANA MAQUILADORA TOUR
Come to learn about Tijuana communities and workers'
conditions and struggles!

Saturday, December 15, 8:30 am to 3 pm

 

 

– Important Notice:

·         Citizens returning from Mexico should present an U.S. passport. (Otherwise, they need an official ID, birth certificate, and waiting in line when returning to the U.S. for a period of time to be decided by the border gate officer.) More information: the U.S. State Dept. travel alert “Mexico”

·         All tour participants must read the US travel alert to Mexico and sign the tour waiver. Please read the attached file.

 

– Schedule (There may be slight variations from tour to tour.)

·      8:30 am sharp- San Ysidro/Tijuana border-bus station. We will walk together to cross the border gate and travel to our locations in Tijuana using chartered buses for transportation.

·      9:15 am- The crosses at the border: More than 7,000 immigrants have died trying to cross the border since 1994, when NAFTA was imposed.

·      9:30 am- Otay Industrial Park, Sanyo and other maquiladoras: workers’ labor conditions, labor rights and struggles

NOTE: We will visit the Tijuana industrial area but won’t enter any factory.

·      11:15 am- Rio Alamar, or how maquiladoras, distorted urban development and wild industrialization define Tijuana

·      12:00 pm- Foxconn: the largest maquiladora in both Tijuana and the world

·      12:45 pm- Lunch

·      1:15 pm:- Group dialogue about the experience; time for questions and comments

·      2:00 pm- Working women in Tijuana are organizing artisan cooperatives and promoting an alternative economy. They will bring their handcrafts to the tour. To learn in advance
about these cooperatives, please go to http://www.ollincallicm.blogspot.com/

·      3:00 pm- Return to the bus station

 

– Donations

·      $30 regular, $20 students, $ 50 solidarity

·      Donations cover the bus, lunch, and a donation to the workers’ organizations.

 

For tour reservations go SD Network Tour Reservations

 

 

Sponsored by Colectivo Ollin Calli Tijuana, Colectivo Chilpancingo for Environmental Justice, San Diego Maquiladora Workers' Solidarity Network, Environmental Health Coalition, and Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras

 

Presentation by Martha Ojeda: What is going on in Mexico

What is going on in Mexico? A Perspective from Maquiladora Workers:

From NAFTA to Plan Merida

Martha Ojeda

Wednesday, Nov 7, 2012

9:35-11 am

San Diego City College

Room A 213

TRW Workers, Tams, Mexico

Martha Ojeda is a leader of a unique movement of union, community and religious activists, who are creating a new kind of cross-border solidarity, an answer from below to the globalization of the world's economy. As executive director of the Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras, Ojeda has organized thousands of maquiladora workers in some of the poorest barrios in Mexico, a stone's throw from the U.S. border. Challenging the maquiladora border bosses, she takes on some of the world's biggest corporations, running some of Mexico's most miserable sweatshops. David Bacon, Hellraiser

You can tell straight away that Martha Ojeda is a force to be reckoned with. The passion in her ringing, rapid-fire Spanish is infectious as she describes the lives of the half-million maquiladora (a literal translation means 'assembled by machine') workers who labor in the low-wage assembly plants tucked inside the Mexican border. She has been an activist, organizer and worker in the maquiladoras herself for nearly 20 years. Wayne Ellwood, New Internationalist magazine

For Martha Ojeda, the daunting is routine; the impossible simply takes a little longer. For twenty years, a production worker and labor activist in Mexican maquiladora factories, Martha is now executive director of a remarkable transnational organization, the Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras (CJM). Petra: Victories for Justice

Martha Ojeda, director of the Coalition pro Justice in the Maquiladoras since 1996 is also editor of the book “NAFTA From Below: Maquiladora Workers, Farmers, and Indigenous Communities Speak Out on the Impact of Free Trade in Mexico” together with Prof. Rosemary Hennessy.

In testimonies from scores of maquiladora workers, campesinos, and indigenous communities from across Mexico, NAFTA From Below details the impact of free trade on those it has most severely affected. These first-hand accounts of workers organizing for their rights, of farmers and indigenous peoples fighting to preserve their land, and of efforts north and south to build alternatives document the courage of ordinary people who dare to join together and stand up for decent work conditions, just salaries, a clean environment, and lives with dignity.

Taller sobre la llamada "reforma" laboral y los derechos laborales actuales

Sábado 3 de Noviembre de 10 a.m. a 3 p.m.

Los Invitamos al Taller sobre la llamada "reforma" laboral y los derechos laborales actuales.

Hablaremos sobre las leyes que protegen a los y las trabajadores y las “REFORMAS” de los patrones para quitarnos esas leyes.

• ¿Cuánto te toca si te despiden?
• ¿Qué hacer si me enfermo o accidento en el trabajo?
• ¿Es ilegal que me obliguen a trabajar más de mi jornada normal?

Se realizara En Pasaje Gómez Local #25 Zona Centro,
 Entre calle 3ra y 4ta y Avenida Madero y Revolución

Mapa para llegar aquí: Pasaje Gomez

Para mayor información comunícate
 al Cel. (664) 1902686

Foro de Derechos Laborales y Construcción de Ciudadanía

2o. Foro de Derechos Laborales y Construcción de Ciudadanía

8/9 de noviembre, 2012

9:30 am / Sala Victor Urquidi

Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana

Participan:

 

Arturo Alcalde, abogado laborista

Arnulfo Arteaga, UAM-I

Margarita Avalos, Ollin Calli

Alberto Castro, CTM Tijuana

Magdalena Cerda, Colectivo Chilpancingo pro Justicia Ambiental

Enrique Davalos, Red de Solidaridad con los y las trabajadoras de la maquila

Miguel Angel Ramirez, UABC Tijuana

Marlene Solis, Colegio Frontera Norte

Cronología Mínima de Tijuana

Cronología Mínima de Tijuana
Tijuana: Cesarepm.tripod.com
Fecha de acceso: 19 Octubre 2012


Julio 11, 1889
Se considera como fecha oficial de fundación de Tijuana. En esta época principia su desarrollo urbano, al aprobarse su primer plano, en el juicio promovido por las familias Argüello y Olvera.
Fuente: Fuente: http://www.tijuana.gob.mx

1900
Según el censo, Tijuana cuenta con 242 habitantes (129 hombres y 113 mujeres).

1911
Los magonistas toman la ciudad de Mexicali el 29 de enero, de Tecate el 12 de marzo y de Tijuana el 9 de mayo. Son expulsados el 22 de junio por el coronel Celso vega. A este hecho también, se le conoce como “El Asalto Filibustero”.

18 de octubre, 1919
La Ley Seca (Ley Volstead) es promulgada en Estados Unidos, entrando en vigor el 16 de enero de 1920.

1924
Se establece el Hipódromo de Tijuana y el Foreign Club.

15 de octubre, 1925
Se erige en pueblo la congregación de Tijuana dándose el nombre de Zaragoza a la ciudad y Tijuana al municipio. Esto no se consolida por motivos burocráticos nombrándose un Consejo Municipal.

1926
Se constituye la Compañía de Teléfonos de Baja California, S.A., por El señor Manuel P. Barbachano, en Tijuana.

1926
Se constituye la Cámara Nacional de Comercio de Tijuana.

9 de junio,1928
Fastuosa inauguración del Casino de Agua Caliente. Concurren a la hora señalada, empresarios, políticos y estrellas de cine de la cercana California.

1929
Tijuana deja de llamarse Zaragoza. Se transforma en delegación Municipal dejando de ser Consejo.

febrero 7,1931
Se decreta la creación de dos Territorios, Norte y Sur en Baja California. El primero con delegaciones en Mexicali, Tijuana y Ensenada.

1935
El general Lázaro Cárdenas clausura el Casino de Agua Caliente y el Foreing Club, al decretar prohibida su operación en todo el país.

1935
El general Lázaro Cárdenas del Río decreta la Zona Libre Parcial en el Territorio Norte con duración, de 10 años.

193X
7 Se expropia el Casino Agua Caliente. Ulteriormente se transforma en centro educativo.

16 de febrero,1938
Motín violento en el centro de la ciudad. Más de mil personas protagonizan una violenta revuelta: tratan de linchar al soldado Juan Castillo Morales acusado de violar a la niña Olga Camacho. Los manifestantes incendiaron el Palacio Municipal y la estación de Policía. A partir de las confusas circunstancias de este hecho; el ulterior fusilamiento del soldado, nace el mito tijuanense de Juan Soldado.

1938
Se inaugura la plaza de toros, El Toreo de Tijuana.

1940
Se empieza a exigir pasaporte a los mexicanos para cruzar la línea internacional México-Estados Unidos.

2 de octubre,1944
Se inicia la construcción del Puente México, en Tijuana. (CAB)

1947
Se inaugura en Tijuana el Frontón Palacio Jai Alai de Tijuana.

1950
Se termina la construcción del Club Campestre.

enero 16,1952
Baja California, hasta ahora Territorio, se erige como Estado libre y soberano... Más tarde aparece un decreto en el Diario oficial de la Federación, que se ocupa de la organización del nuevo estado. Fue designado gobernador provisional el Lic. Alfonso García González, último gobernador territorial, quien convocó a elecciones para la integración de la Legislatura.

1 de diciembre, 1953
Braulio Maldonado Sánchez, primer gobernador constitucional.
1952
Se establece el canal 6 (XETV).

1953
Tijuana se convierte en municipio.
18 de julio,1960
Se establece en Tijuana, la repetidora de Telesistema (hoy Televisa). De esta manera, dicha empresa comienza una fructífera historia en la ciudad. 1960
Se inicia la construcción en Tijuana de la Carretera Escénica Tijuana-Ensenada.

1965
Inicia el Programa de Empresas Maquiladoras

1970
Un incendio destruye el Hipódromo de Tijuana ( Agua Caliente).

1970
Se inaugura en Tijuana, el Aeropuerto Internacional Abelardo L. Rodríguez en la Mesa de Otay.

1971
El Instituto Tecnológico Regional comienza sus actividades en Tijuana.

1972
El Centro de Enseñanza Técnica y Superior (CETYS) se establece en Tijuana.

4 de mayo,1974
Inauguración del actual Hipódromo de Tijuana.

1976
Severa devaluación del peso mexicano. Pasa de 12.50 pesos por un dólar a la friolera de 25 por uno, inaugurando un tobogán de depreciación de nuestra moneda.

Octubre, 1977
Se funda la Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana en la hasta entonces Escuela Pública Alvaro Obregón, sita en la colonia Altamira. Comienza un intenso trabajo de difusión cultural y de iniciación a las artes

1982
Se inaugura el Centro Cultural Tijuana, un gran espacio arquitectónico construido por Pedro Ramírez Vázquez y Manuel Rosen. Depende inicialmente de FONAPAS, pasando ulteriormente a la Secretaría de Educación Pública. Se convierte rápidamente en un funcional centro difusor de la cultura mexicana e importante emblema urbano de la ciudad.

1982
Se establece el Centro de Estudios Fronterizos del Norte de México (CEFNOMEX), actualmente conocido como El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (EL COLEF). Entre sus objetivos inmediatos se encuentra impulsar la investigación académica y promover los estudios de posgrado sobre la frontera. Sus áreas preferentes de investigación son la migración indocumental, la industria maquiladora, aspectos de medio ambiente y la relación Binacional México Estados Unidos.
1988
El primer ayuntamiento panista en la ciudad encabezado por Carlos Montejo Favela. El Cabildo está integrado por Cocepción Lopez Sedano, Blas Manrique, Belén Magallón, Alejandro Monraz. Se reorganiza el Catastro y sanean las finanzas públicas.

1989
Por primera vez en la historia reciente del país, una partido de oposición(PAN) gana las elecciones estatales, eligiendo al Lic. Ernesto Ruffo Appel (1989-1995)

21 de marzo,1994
Es asesinado en el suburbio de Tijuana, Lomas Taurinas, Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, candidato del PRI a la presidencia de la República. Este estratégico acontecimiento conmocionó al país. El asesino es, un joven michoacano llamado Mario Aburto

1995
Se crea el quinto municipio de Baja California, Rosarito. Su área territorial es desincorporada en lo fundamental del municipio de Tijuana. Para su creación se aducen argumentos de viabilidad financiera y autfinanciamiento.