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In Mexico, $2 per hour workers make $40,000 SUVs
Topic Started: Sep 26 2017, 07:44 AM (124 Views)
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By MARK STEVENSON
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Auto worker Ivan Flores spends his days transporting parts for U.S.-bound Audi SUVs at a plant in central Mexico, but he laughs when asked if he could ever buy one of the $40,000 Q5 SUVs the plant produces on his $2.25 per hour salary.

“For us it is a dream to buy a Q5; we never could,” said Flores, 40, who supports three sons on his roughly $110 weekly paycheck.

The premise of the auto industry since the times of Henry Ford was that workers would make enough to buy the cars they produced. Across the U.S. and Europe, the arrival of an auto plant meant the creation of middle-class communities, with employees taking vacations, buying homes, cars, perhaps even cottages and boats.

But in Mexico — where the auto industry has boomed under the North American Free Trade Agreement, with plants like the Audi factory that opened in Puebla state in 2016 — the industry has created something different: a class of workers who are barely getting by, crammed into tiny 500-square-foot apartments in government-subsidized projects that they pay for over decades. Many can’t afford even a used car, taking home as little as $50 per week after deductions for mortgages and cafeteria meals.
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Construction workers who earn $30/hr making $1,000,000 homes can't afford to buy a home of their own.
Edited by Robertr2000, Sep 26 2017, 05:32 PM.
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My employers never paid my mortgage or fed me , then gave me a paycheck equal to the national average............... :wah:
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Mexicans 'Must Work More Than 24 Hours a Day to Afford Food'
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Mexicans on minimum wage need more than 24 working hours per day in order to afford basic food supplies, says a new university study.
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A woman buys vegetables at a market stall in Mexico City, January 2018. | Photo: Reuters/Daniel Becerril
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That is a big lie....Beans and rice are cheap, and the government subsidizes tortillas................... :mad:
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