(Ed.'s Note: Members of the community turned out in support of workers at Keppel Amfels at the Port of Brownsville which is resisting unionization of its work force. The union published these photos in its Facebook page.
Prominent among them was Mario Saenz, brother of Cameron County District Attorney Luis V. Saenz and a farmworkers union supporters from the days of Cesar Chavez, Ruben Cortez, a current member of the Texas State School Board of education and candidate for the Texas Senate seat held by Eddie Lucio Jr., Jared Hockema, the chairman of the Cameron County Democratic Party, as well as Amber Medina, top photo in the center holding "proud daughter of a union worker"sign. She is a candidate for the District 37 State Rep. seat now held by Alex Dominguez.
The workers say that their struggle to unionize is based on getting better wages and working conditions and in providing critically needed assistance to workers for health benefits and safety conditions at the plant. Amfels has been the beneficiary of numerous state, county and City of Brownsville incentives through the Greater Brownsville Incentives Corporation. They say that since the worldwide corporation is the recipient of incentives funded by their tax dollars, the company should also uplift the conditions and wages of its workers.)