Alcoa Threatens Its Mexican Workers: 'We Can Hire Three Hondurans for Each of You Mexicans'.

Byline: Fenton Communications

NEW YORK, July 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Alcoa workers in Mexico, manufacturing auto parts for export to the U.S. earn a base wage of just $1.21 an hour, trapping them in deplorable living conditions. In Piedras Negras, many Alcoa workers sell their blood plasma twice a week in order to eke out an existence. In Acuna, Alcoa workers live in primitive one- and two-room cinderblock huts, lacking windows and potable water.

In the race to the bottom in the global economy - and moving from NAFTA to CAFTA - even these wages are too high and these living conditions too extravagant. Alcoa has shifted 2,500 jobs to Honduras and is now …