Battle in Nicaragua's Maquiladoras
Against The Current vol. 87

http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/1638

Publisher:  Against The Current
Date Written:  01/07/2000
Year Published:  2000  
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX12846

Nicaragua has only one major "free trade zone," Las Mercedes, and unlike the rest of Central America, half of the workers there have managed to build unions. Recently the zone management and the Labor Ministry are helping employers to implement a variety of union-busting actions:

Subject Headings

• Central America
• Latin America
• Nicaragua
• Union-busting
• Union Organizing
• Unions