War to Drug – Traffickers & Unions

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AFL - CIO: Reiterate its solidarity with the miners and electricians
War to Drug – Traffickers & Unions
By: Carlos Damián August 4, 2010
Send letter to legislating of the neighboring nation of the north to denounce the aggressions
México. – The president of the American Federation of the Work - Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)) Richard L. Trumka, it sent to the leader of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, and to the chief of the majority in the Senate, Harry Reid, a letter in wave that manifesto the support of that organization to the mining earner unions and electricians of Mexico, and indicates that both unions have been "assaulted by the current government of Felipe Calderon".

The letter indicates the deep rejection that between the organizations of United States workers causes the union policy of Calderon Hinojosa and makes to see that without taking into account covenanted what is in the parallel occupational agreement of the North American Free Trade Agreement of North America (Nafta), "the government of Mexico continues violating the rights of the Mexican workers with a total impunity".

Indicate that "unfortunately United States has not pressed seriously to Mexico on this important topic that has an overwhelming impact in the workers and their families in the entire continent. The time to make them is now". Richard L. Trunka, who is a leader of metallurgical and mining origin, and heads to the AFL-CIO, one of the organizations strongest of The States, indicates in the letter that at the same time that the president Calderon has gone to war against the drug traffic also the has declared against the independent unions, and democratic.

"For example, the government of Mexico systematically it has assaulted on mining workers union. The authorities have been denied to recognize the results of the union elections and they have presented untruthful criminal charges against the leader of the union, Napoleon Gomez Urrutia. The assets of the union have been confiscated by reasons without basis. The workers have been object of an extended repression campaign that it has let two died to hands of the safety forces and many other injured". Indicates the mining leader.

Add that even now, "the work secretary – Javier Lozano -, threatens with the use of the armed forces to vacate to the workers in strike in the mine of Cananea". In so much last October the president Calderon also bade farewell to 44 thousand members of the Independent Mexican Electricians Union, being denied thoroughly to negotiate with the union, as indicates it the collective contract of existing work.

The authentic saboteurs of the country are: Calderon and Lozano "Saboteurs, what is said saboteurs, they are Calderon and Fresh, that if it are", said Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) to the workers of the Mexican Electricians Union (EMS), upon attending to the camp of the Socle, where integrating of the union carry out a massive hunger strike. From the "heart of the country from the capital plate, we said to the ministers of the Supreme Justice Court of the Nation (SCJN) that have in their hands a decision that not only it can dignify to the maximum court of the country, but it can say to the Mexicans that there is a legality beacon in Mexico". You/them requested to the ministers that solve soon and that the workers does not has because to follow suffering the Calvary in search of justice, and all in order to advance in the privatization of a public company.

One of the workers in hunger strike, Celestino Ovando Salvador, requested to him on behalf of their companions, that support them since the workers are tired of this wrong government, of the fact that is you/them mistreated, of the nonchalance and social insensibility of the administration of Calderon and requests to him that agglutinate to all the movements that they are completely of the government PAN-man. Guadalupe Vazquez, of the you die in fasting, as far as he is concerned read a letter in the one which indicated that it is incomprehensible that the federal government wants to regale the anniversaries of the Independence and of the Revolution when there is no freedoms in the country, when is wanted to recede 100 years in the dealing to the workers and to return to the occupational development, brutal when were having violence and mistreatment against the worker sector, and independent peasant."

Before this situation AMLO outlined: "Is finished of announcing without the smaller pruritus that went to deliver 22 thousand kilometers of fiber net optical to Televises and Telephonic of Spain, the one which directs Francisco Gil Díaz. A great business to the protection of the public power. With this net that cost 30 billion of pesos of the public budget, and that it will be transferred to these companies, that to the have not other postures only must pay 850 million of pesos for the grant, it is total the "governmental cynicism", terminated AMLO. (La Jornada, política, p. 14-15, 20 de Mayo, 2010).