Unemployed maquila workers on the border

Mexican manufacturing jobs have been hard hit by the economic crisis. That's especially true for the textile and garment industries that send about 95% of their exports to the US market. Mexico's National Textile Industry Chamber estimates that as many as 80,000 sector workers lost their jobs in 2008 – the group predicts an equally grim outcome for the first half of this year. But layoffs that have long been affecting garment workers along the Mexican border with Texas have now sparked some creative thinking among unemployed seamstresses, labor organizers and fair trade promoters. Shannon Young traveled to Piedras Negras to find out more.

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