Fuerza Unida is a workers' activist group based in San Antonio, Texas, which led a lengthy series of protests against Levi Strauss & Co. over the company's closing of production plants in the United States. They have also been active in environmental activism and protests against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Fuerza Unida was founded in 1990 by former employees of Levi Strauss & Co., protesting the sudden closure of the company's San Antonio plant and shifting of labor overseas to Costa Rica. This resulted in loss of employment by 1,250 Mexican and Mexican-American women. Many of these women began meeting in a local church to commiserate and comfort one another, eventually deciding to organize themselves into a formal group. Workers affected by the layoff, including Viola Casares and Petra Mata, who would later become co-coordinators of the group, began coordinating protests against Levi's as Fuerza Unida. More information...
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