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"Quiet" support to activists. Solidarity Center strengthened the capacity of laid-off workers in Silao to conduct outreach and workers' organizing activities in preparation for the vote to legitimate collective bargaining at an automotive plant. This made it possible to provide “quiet” technical and strategic assistance to the workers organized around Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras de la Industria Automotriz (National Union of Workers in the Automotive Industry) in the days before the legitimation vote. This support was decisive in preventing punitive measures from employers and/or protection unions, and further allowed these workers to legitimately win the vote. Similarly, Solidarity Center provided technical assistance to a group of dismissed worker activists in San Luis Potosí, and strengthened their outreach and worker organizing capacities, which in turn contributed to a maintained and active union presence of Sindicato Independiente de Trabajadores de Goodyear Mexico (Independent Workers Union of Goodyear Mexico).