A Sun: The logo symbolizes a sun. This sun refers to the sixth sun of the Aztecs which prophesied that in the sixth sun there would be a renaissance of collective conscience and an uprising against the oppressor.  The interior of the sun describes the social impacts of NAFTA in Mexico, the United States and Canada.

A Cross: In the interior of the circle there is a cross: This cross makes reference to the religious groups that were the organizations who took the initiative to knock on doors of the unions and other organizations to form the first multi-sectoral Coalition, and who are still here committed with CJM principles, mission, and work.

Five Circles: The five circles symbolize the combination of all the material things with the infinite. Faith and hope, conviction and the certainty of being able to form a better world by means of unity and solidarity by joining organizations from the three framed countries in the fifth circle at the center.

Four circles: Four cardinal points where CJM will always be present, in all spaces and all places articulating workers and organizations in the four directions in a global struggle wherever multinationals are.

Three Circles: The three circles in the center symbolize the three signatory countries of NAFTA and the impacts and consequences in each of them.

First big circle above:
It is literally true that workers from Custom-Trim in Valle Hermoso, Tamaulipas were arrested by the management of the plant in the company’s parking lot during a strike, in May of 97.  But this also symbolizes the prison and slavery of long days, forced work and marginal wages that NAFTA has meant for all the young people and all the workers of the assembly plants in Mexico.

Second big circle to the right: Here you can see the unsafe conditions of all the workers in the assembly plants.  The multinationals open their assembly plants in Mexico without safety equipment and workers are exposed to unsafe and unhealthy conditions.

Small circle on bottom right: Here we can see the big industries with its entire infrastructure that they are dumping their toxics in the communities as it is shown in the following circle.

Big bottom circle: This shows the living conditions of the workers of the assembly plants who live in belts of poverty around the industrial parks.  Their houses are made of wood platforms and cardboard boxes, without electricity, sewers, nor potable water and where the multinationals dump their chemicals, toxic solvents that contaminate the environment.

Small circle on bottom left: This circle shows the flags of the United States and Canada squashing the map of Mexico, as a symbol of the unequal economies of the countries and of the negative social consequences of NAFTA’s economic integration.

Big circle on the right: This reflects the labor force in the Maquiladoras assembly plants that is generally feminine and young enslaved at work and at home, and yet in spite of having employment the conditions of life are impoverished.

Small circle on top: The bread and roses symbolize the fight of the women in the factories of the United States.  They proclaim that we do want employment but in worthy and right conditions.

Small circle on top right: Symbol of Peace, it shows that we want peace, but there cannot be peace if the wages are marginal and the conditions of work are unsafe, if workers are exposed to toxic solvents that provoke children with deformities or forced labor, if the women are being discriminated against and sexually harassed, if the jobs are insecure, if the conditions of life are marginal in a contaminated environment.  If there is no justice, there is no Peace.

A small circle in the center: You can see three circles with the flag of each country.

A circle with the flag of Mexico: In the center there are people observing the bridge.  This symbol reflects the emigration which is one of the greatest impacts of the Free Trade Agreement in Mexico.  The workers of the assembly plants of today are the potential emigrants of tomorrow.

A circle with the flag of Canada: This circle reflects one of the greater impacts in this country, where the garment industry immigrated to other countries like Central America and Asia with the argument of being competitive in the market.

A circle with the flag of the United States: A circle that shows the big trucks simultaneously transporting the import and export of products and symbolizing the controversy in which the U.S. truckers were opposed to letting Mexican trucks circulate in US and failing to fulfill the agreement of NAFTA.

A small sun in the center: Symbol of the fight for social justice, articulating the members of CJM in the three countries to fight against the impacts of NAFTA and the neoliberal policies affecting the people all over the world.