Currently, the maquiladoras presents some significate transformations in their productive structure as well has spread throughout the country, although keeping low wages and disfavored working conditions. In this chapter I examine some characteristics of workers organizations in a strategic region of maquiladora influence: the Mexican northern border. Since 1960s, numerous assembly plants were installed in the main cities of Mexico's northern border, where official trade unions fight against independent workers' organizations, although official unions had periods of internal struggle which concluded with a large division. Some years later, in the 1980s and 1990s, there were important influences of transnational labor organizations in the struggle
