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...setting of the show is the Kukdong apparel factory in Puebla, Mexico. The man in purple is King Kong, representing the evil factory owner, and the bandit is one of the “charros,” the leaders of the “gangster union.” The caricatures represent the attack on employees who went on strike at Kukdong in December 2000 to establish the first ever workers’ union in a Mexican maquiladoro, or sweatshop...
...actors in the performance are mostly workers from Kukdong who participated in the strike that forced management to raise wages and improve conditions at the factory. The theater group is touring the United States to raise awareness about working conditions in Mexico...
...trained representatives from human rights organizations, and all results are fully disclosed. It is also the only monitoring organization endorsed by local unions and worker advocacy groups, those who actually have workers’ interests at heart. Already the WRC has made significant gains, for example at the Kukdong factory in Puebla, Mexico; the WRC there gained recognition from Nike for an independent worker-organized union, the first of its kind in a Mexican textile factory. The WRC worked with Nike to keep the factory open and to improve working conditions, contrary to fears that an organization such...
Assisted by a student translator enlisted at the last minute, Tepepa described the oppressive conditions that she and others had suffered in the Kukdong factory. She spoke of spoiled cafeteria food, physical and psychological mistreatment at the hands of managers, and painfully low wages. Workers, mostly young women and largely single mothers, were paid only three or four pesos per day, while workers actually require 100, Tepepa said...
Because of the WRC’s investigation, and because of concern expressed by universities supplied by Kukdong, the government of Mexico began to recognize the unjust state the factory, the panelists said...