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Southern California drywall strike : ウィキペディア英語版 | Southern California drywall strike
The Southern California drywall strike of 1992 was a movement by the Mexican drywall hangers in demand for fair wages and health insurance. With the help of the California Immigrant Workers Association (CIWA) they fought the threat of deportation and arrest. Eventually aligning with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners the strikers succeeded in getting union contracts that ensured fair wages and benefits. The strike left the residential construction industry in a different state. While the industry remained an open shop, contractors were forced to pay their Mexican workers with wages and benefits closer to that of the white workers. ==Background== In the early 1980s workers in the drywall industry in Southern California became predominately Mexican. With this change in demographics employers dropped pensions, insurance, and cut wages of workers in an effort to minimize overall costs. By 1992 drywall hangers were receiving an average of $300 a week, a wage that could not sustain their families. Most of the workers came from the same region in Mexico, brought into the country by a third party who then took a cut of their paychecks. During this period the drywall hangers were practicing circular migration where they would be brought back into the United States when there was work and then return to their families in Mexico. While the workers were clearly disadvantaged, their close-knit community and ability to relate to each other aided in their ability to organize into the movement that restored their rights as workers. The drywall hangers followed the example of the recent Justice for Janitors movement in Los Angeles, another Hispanic group demanding fair working conditions, as precedent.〔http://articles.latimes.com/1992-11-11/business/fi-178_1_union-contract〕
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