Federal Law of the Work

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Federal Law of the Work
By: Carlos Damián September 3, 2010
Independent syndicalism in Mexico
México.- it is very explicit the hatred of class toward the workers and personnel in Mexico of the federal government, to shows the following bellboy: the ignorance of the leader of the mining union (STMSRM) with Napoleon Gomez Urrutia, the liquidation by presidential decree of the electricians union (SME) with 44 thousand working in the street of the night to the tomorrow, unions with an independent path of the official line, and now the shift is of the pilots and stewardesses union in the Mexican Aviation Company (CMA).

The conflicts that it has provoked the federal government has had a reactionary and neoliberal attitude that comes to reinforce the thesis that intends to finish with the democratic union organizations with the illegitimate use of the fascist arrangements of the Federal law of the Work (LFT) in collective matter, inherited from 1931 of the Letter of Lavoro, imposed by Benito Mussolini in Italy, that Plutarco Elías Calles knew in his vacation visit country of the boot and transmitted prompt to Ortiz Rubio so that appeared in the Mexican legislation.

Two points are the essential characteristics of that oligarchic policy: the record and “toma de nota” of the unions and the constitution of boards of conciliation and arbitration (JCA) that inherited of the Italian code: dependent courts of the executive branch as it are the boards in Mexico (JCA). To close the mine of Cananea, Sonora has not been child's play for the federal government consider ended the workable relationships and to obtain a white union - sindicato blanco -that sells them. This because is a state grant and the company had obtained earnings millionaires.

Given the evident failure in declaring non-existent the strike, the company and the federal government decided to assume the cost of the lie, we relying in which the population did not understand and soon forgot; German Larrea, associate of Televisa, helps in this purpose. It was ordered then to the Economy Secretariat that elaborated a judgment that to justify the close of the mine, and were given instructions so that in a lightning operation the JCA alleviated the pantomime of a judgment that normally hard several years. 14 of April of 2009 drew from the booth an award that orders the close of the mine, and by so much to extinguish the strike, the collective contract, the ownership of the mining union, and to order the disappearance of the individual relationships of work. Of this maneuver there is no occupational precedent and by this reason has generated so much controversy.

However what is evident is the official complicity with these maneuvers of beating to the unions, that seems that the own government prepares them, executes and puts under the custody of Javier Lozano, that it is a champion to burst independent unions and let to the workers in the street. In this line the PAN pays the invoice in benefit of the entrepreneurial sector. The two laws of Federal Work legislation (LFT), one in times of Carlos Abascal and the recent is product of Javier Lozano and Coparmex, fact to destroy the basic rights of the workers.

In this last project work of LFT abound the contracts to prove and the temporary. What have put as novelty is the outsourcing, it is an office of workers contracting independent of the company where actually work the workers and personnel. These offices with a collective protection contract are independent of the source of work and rent to the working, inclusive with bails, so that there are not occupational conflicts to the companies. What remits to the company of paying usefulness’s and a freedom of dismissal whose consequences assumes the landlord company that already will be entrusted with avoiding those problems with the intervention of its union made by the commissioned office with renting working.

In Mexico to stop the occupational rights of the workers was created a kind of protection union called “white union" that intends be imposed to the workers and personnel, with a black record in the union path in the Mexican Republic (La Jornada, June 11, 10). Belongs to a created federation and controlled by the entrepreneurial Group of Monterrey, N. L.; until a little while ago it had so alone 100 affiliates and it has been used by Grupo Minera México to count about an organization that answer to their interest in their long combat against the mining union. The collective contract signed with this union made precarious the work conditions and the wages, so that the company optimizes its earnings.

This last concept of renting working in Mexico is an intolerable vice that the entrepreneurs have impelled to avoid a workable expense that assumes the lease and alone by paying to him a salary the company is saved a whole slew of money but the worker is remained without IMSS, without bonds of merry Christmas and empty vacation. A solution proposed would be suppressed the JCA and to create judges of what is social dependent of the Judicial power, as was made in Spain to the advent of the democracy. There are solutions but the destination of these is uncertain in this Mexico oligarchic. (La Jornada, opinión, p. 19, August 8, 2010).