Charlie Saperstein is a labor activist currently based in Piedras Negras. He helped form a union last year at Seven Stars Bakery in Providence, Rhode Island, where he served as a shop steward and bargaining committee representative with United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 328.

09.23.2023

• Dan DiMaggio
• Charlie Saperstein

Mexican Autoworkers Are Being Blacklisted for Unionizing

After autoworkers in Coahuila, Mexico, organized an independent union at a VU Manufacturing facility, the company shuttered the plant and fired all the workers. Now local business elites have imposed a hiring blacklist on all the former VU workers.