Alcoa Threatens Its Mexican Workers: ‘We Can Hire Three Hondurans for Each of You Mexicans’

Alcoa workers in Mexico, manufacturing auto parts for export to the U.S. earn a base wage of just $1.21 an hour, trapping them in deplorable living conditions. In Piedras Negras, many Alcoa workers sell their blood plasma twice a week in order to eke out an existence. In Acuna, Alcoa workers live in primitive one- and two-room cinderblock huts, lacking windows and potable water.

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