Roles for Workers and Unions in Regulating Labor Recruitment in Mexico

In this paper, the author addresses the final issue of migrant worker agency and participation, examining roles for guest workers themselves as organizers, monitors, and policy-setters in supply chain initiatives and other efforts to address recruitment violations. The author begins with an argument for the importance of such initiatives, and then sets out and analyzes case studies of three very different efforts to engage migrants in this way, all with a base in Mexico and all involving workers who travel to the United States on so-called “H-2 visas,” to do seasonal work in agriculture or food processing.

Roles for Workers and Unions in Regulating Labor Recruitment in Mexico