San Diego Maquiladora Workers’ Solidarity Network

The San Diego Maquiladora Workers’ Solidarity Network ties together people in the nation’s largest border town who want to build an alliance between working people across that border.  We believe that US and other multinational corporations operating factories in Tijuana and other maquiladora cities have no right to pay poverty wages, require pregnancy tests of their workers, pollute with impunity, and repress unions.  We believe that union and other workers in the US will be crippled as long as they are cut off from their co-employees abroad.  And we believe that there is no better place to start solving these global problems than locally.

The Network stays in close touch with workers in Tijuana and other cities fighting for their rights.  We contribute to their struggles in ways that they agree upon, using the leverage that we have as residents of the home country of many of their employers.  We write letters, send emails, bring workers to San Diego to tell their stories, and we organize protests and pickets.  We bring attention to abuses that corporations would prefer to keep from a US audience.  We are union members, students, public health advocates, environmentalists, church people and others working toward alliances with all grassroots organizations that share an interest in our work. For more information about the Maquiladoras, click

We meet once a month, and meetings are open to all.  Anyone can join our Network by participating in our events, coming to meetings, getting on our email list, or all of the above.  Please join us, and help us spread our Network throughout San Diego.  Help Tijuana ’s factory workers win justice today, and help us unleash the power of workers united across borders tomorrow.

We also organize tours of the Tijuana Maquiladora areas, where participants meet with and learn about Tijuana Maquiladora Workers' conditions and struggles. Our next scheduled tour will occur on Saturday May 10, 2008. For information about this tour, or to make a reservation, click .

To view a photo essay of the tour produced by a participant on one of our recent tours, click

A YouTube video of a recent tour can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqkle7w8uTw

An injured Maquiladora Workers' Struggle: Support Alicia Lobato.   **English**   **Español**

Occasionally, we conduct tours for groups such as churches, union members, or college classes.
If you have a group and can fill the bus (~ 30-40 people), please contact Enrique at maquilatijuanasandiego@earthlink.net or 619-388-3634 for information.

The network gratefully accepts donations. The San Diego Maquiladora Workers' Solidarity Network (SDMWSN) is a 501(C)(3) organization. Donations qualify as charitable contributions for tax purposes. All donations are forwarded to the workers' organizations in Tijuana. Clicking the button below takes you to a secure PayPal web site to process donations.