'Workers were abandoned; I gave them a voice.' Meet the lawyer driving a growing labor movement at Mexican factories on the U.S. border.
MATAMOROS, Mexico—Earlier this month, the heads of a Coca-Cola bottler in this border city arrived at their closed plant armed with a court order that declared a strike by the company’s workers illegal. Standing in their way was Susana Prieto.
The 52-year-old labor lawyer, surrounded by workers in front of the plant, told the owners their order was invalid because the court hadn’t notified the union. The owners left and the bottling plant remains closed.
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