90% of Mexico Day Laborers Make Less Than US$15 teleSUR
go to original June 1, 2015

About 94 percent of fishers, farmworkers and forest laborers lack medical care, according to a Mexican government survey. About 90 percent of Mexico's farmworkers, fishers and foresters make less than 200 pesos (US$15) a day for shifts of up to 12 hours, according to a survey by the country's Institute of National Statistics (INEGI).

The San Quintin agricultural day laborers finally achieved a US$15 as a base salary based on an eight-hour shift, as well as 13 other favorable agreements, such as the right to form a union and medical care.

The recent San Quintin farmworkers conflict in the northwestern state of Baja California – just south of the border with the United States – brought to light the abusive conditions imposed by agribusinesses against farm laborers. And despite the favorable agreements achieved by the farmworkers' movement San Quintin, the main demand of their struggle, salary increases, remains unresolved.

The INEGI revealed that over 6.5 million Mexicans working in agriculture, as livestock laborers, fishes and forest activities, make a mere US$15 a day, but worse even, is the fact that over 94 percent of these workers lack medical care, according to the same survey, according to Mexican newspaper La Jornada.

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