Photography Exhibits
Photo from "Rebellion on the Border," photographs by David BaconExhibit at U.C. Berkeley Institute of Industrial Relations 9/1/2002-1/15/2003, photo 13 of 16
Tijuana, 1995
Workers demonstrate in the streets of Tijuana on May Day, protesting
the economic crisis and devaluation of the peso which cut wages
in half. At the government's request, the official unions called
off their 1995 May Day demonstrations throughout the country. The
sign held in the center says "Beware of reforms to Article 123,"
which is Mexico's basic labor law, and which the government is proposing
to weaken.