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maquiladora

[ US /ˌmækwɪˈɫædɝə/ ]
NOUN
  1. an assembly plant in Mexico (near the United States border); parts are shipped into Mexico and the finished product is shipped back across the border

How To Use maquiladora In A Sentence

  • In Mexico's maquiladoras, the employers do not hesitate to deal brutally with workers who try to set up independent trade unions.
  • Similar to the maquiladora assembly plants on the Mexican side of the U. S. -Mexico border, such factories provide jobs but don't do much for the economic well-being of the average citizen.
  • They pass laws to protect the maquiladoras, so the rule of law exists in that sense,’ he admits.
  • Then we dumped those people, as virtual slave labor, in maquiladoras in the northern states of Mexico, or we brought them across the border as cheap labor, here.
  • Since 2002, 300 maquiladoras have moved from Mexico to China.
  • The suspect corn flour was fashioned into taco shells at a Pepsi-Co maquiladora in Mexicali, Mexico, which also turns out that country's numero uno snack food, Sabritas.
  • He recently launched his ambitious ‘Plan Puebla Panama,’ to transform Central America into a vast Free Trade Zone, a combination of interoceanic transportation links, maquiladoras, and plantations.
  • The piece restages the 12-hour interrogation of a maquiladora laborer accused of attempting to unionize workers.
  • They have come in variably from the south or interior of Mexico to work in what are called the maquiladoras.
  • The effect of labor law on a maquiladora is the same as for any other Mexican corporation, and it must be recognized that the impact is significant. What is a maquiladora? Manufacturing in Mexico: The Mexican in-bond (Maquila) program
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