Coalición de Trabajadoras y Trabajadores Migrantes Temporales Sinaloenses

The Coalición de Trabajadoras y Trabajadores Migrantes Temporales Sinaloenses (Coalition of Sinaloan Temporary Migrant Workers) is made up of workers who seek to work temporarily in the United States each year under the H2-A and H2-B visa system. By making use of this immigration system, migrant workers are at constant risk (from the moment of recruitment to the moment of return home) of having our human labor rights violated by recruiters, superiors, employers and authorities. 

This organizing process is unique in its kind because it allows temporary migrant workers to defend their rights from their country of origin and not only in the country where they work. In Mexico, it is the only coalition (a legal figure established in the Federal Labor Law for collective organization) made up of temporary migrant workers.

With this coalition, ProDESC promotes a comprehensive defense strategy that includes organizational accompaniment and legal processes of exemplary cases so that the U.S. and Mexican governments implement a mechanism to regulate the temporary work visa system in which both countries participate and are responsible.

The Coalition was formed in 2013, after ProDESC accompanied a group of workers who were defrauded while trying to obtain a temporary employment visa in the United States. The CTTMTS is made up of people from the towns of Topolobampo, Gabriel Leyva Solano, Los Mochis and the “El Colorado” fishing camp in Sinaloa. 

In these years of work, the Coalition managed to get the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare to carry out the first labor inspection in Mexico, which resulted in an administrative sanction against the recruitment agency “Desarrollo Social Sin Fronteras”; participated in the campaign “Te la pintan retebonito” to prevent fraud; presented its case and the situation of temporary migrant workers before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; prevented the fraud of 8 workers from Etchojoa, Sinaloa; and two members of the Coalition obtained Humanitarian Visas.

– Right to have a freely chosen and accepted job.

– Right to freedom of association.

– Right to collective bargaining.

– Right to non-discrimination at work.

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