The Border Committee of Workers (Comité Fronterizo de Obrer@s - CFO) is a grassroot organization that supports union democracy and workers rights in six cities along the Mexico-U.S. border.

With support from the CFO, thousands of maquiladora workers have won significant victories, including:

• Substantial wage hikes;
• Improvements in working conditions;
• Election of rank-and-file activists to local union executive committees; 
• Severance packages for laid-off workers that meet the requirements of Mexico 's labor code; 
• Restoration of benefits that have been withdrawn by maquiladora firms.

The CFO consists of workers whose consciousness has already been raised and who want to help our coworkers. We are all current or former maquiladora workers. We are active in three of Mexico 's border states: Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Chihuahua. Our main office is in the city of Piedras Negras in Coahuila.

The CFO was established in 1986 as an independent Mexican organization, although its efforts date back to 1978 as a binational Quaker project. It is set up as an asociación civil, the Mexican equivalent of a nonprofit organization. The CFO is an inclusive group that respects the political, religious, and sexual preferences of its members. It is indepent of the government and of all political parties.