We chat with Mexico-City-based journalist Martha Pskowski about her reporting on the maquila worker strikes just south of the U.S.-Mexico border, and about why we should all be paying attention to the recent developments in Mexican labor politics.

 

Additional links/info below...

• Martha's website and Twitter page
• Martha Pskowski, Dissent, "Mexican Labor Reawakens" 
• Lauren Kaori Gurley, The New Republic, "Is Mexico on the Brink of a Labor Revolution?"
• Paolo Marinaro and Dan DiMaggio, Labor Notes, "Strike Wave Wins Raises for Mexican Factory Workers"
• David Agren, The Guardian, "'We Won't Be Trampled On': Striking Mexican Workers Vow to Fight the Fight"

 

Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)

• Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"