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 the 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 collaborate with union members, students, public health advocates, environmentalists, communities of faith, and grassroots organizations that share an interest in our work.

We are currently doing a fundraising campaign for OLLIN CALLI, our partner organization in Tijuana. 

Support Ollin Calli

Support Ollin Calli

Click to see the fundraising letter and learn about Ollin Calli’s role in the border region

For more about its activities and the workers’ struggle in Mexico see Ollin Calli Blog .

We organize Tijuana Resistance Tours where participants learn about Tijuana Maquiladora Workers' conditions and struggles as well as other social struggles in Baja California. Special group tours to address the interests of university classes, unions, or churches can be arranged.  To learn more about these tours, click here.

We meet four times a year 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 workers win justice today, and help us unleash the power of workers united across borders tomorrow.

The network gratefully accepts one-time donations, and ongoing monthly pledges. The San Diego Maquiladora Workers' Solidarity Network (SDMWSN) is a 501(C)(3) organization. Donations and pledges qualify as charitable contributions for tax purposes. All donations are forwarded to the workers' organizations in Tijuana.

Click to initiate (or terminate) a donation or monthly pledge