Offensive anti worker

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They have been demoted profoundly the occupational conditions in the country
Offensive anti worker
By: Carlos Damián October 4, 2010
The mine collected the life of 65 mining
México. - Four years ago the mine Pasta de Conchos collected the life cruelly of 65 mining that remained trapped in the deposit. The balance of the episode is going beyond those irreparable deaths and of the suffering of the relatives and wife of the victims: in all this time, the country has attended the demonstration, as one of the continuity signs between the federal administrations PAN-men, of a systematical and rebellious employment of the public branch in defense of the entrepreneurial interest. In this tragedy could be avoided if the authorities might have complied with their obligation of preventing, or in its case to sanction, the negligence and no fulfillment chain to the occupational safety regulation assignments by Grupo Mexico, proprietary of the devastated mine.

Go into hiding relevant the documental evidence of the fact that the Secretariat of the Work and Social Provision (STPS) had detected 19 months before the facts, a thirtieth of irregularities that were putting on risk the health and the life in the workers on the mine, and however, it was until seven months before of the accident when demanded to the company that accomplished the corresponding appropriateness in the deposit, those which, in any way, were not effected. In subsequent days to the 19 of February of 2006, instead of be consecrated to recapture to the buried workers, to explain the facts and to solve the indignant work conditions of the miners, the federal government was devoted to protect and conceal the responsibilities of the employer part in the tragedy.

In the limit of indolence and irresponsibility, the previous president Vicente Fox arrived to assert, when already was resulting undeniable that the workers were died, that were continuing the rescue projects for "to supply of oxygen and of foods", and the spokesman of the presidency, Ruben Aguilar, indicated that the safety conditions in the mine were "excellent" until before the explosion, in a unacceptable attempt by granting an acquittal anticipated to the property company of German Larrea.

But the aggravating and the infamy against the miners was beyond, the government federal administration of Fox took advantage the conjuncture to undertake an offensive in against of the mining union and his leadership, headed by Napoleon Gomez Urrutia, who criticized openly the irresponsibility of the company and of the commissioned authorities with supervising the prevailing occupational conditions in Pasta de Conchos. In response, the federal administration of Fox, that until later had maintained good relationship to the mining leader, resuscitated old and known accusations against Gomez Urrutia by presumed diverted from funds and began a campaign of harass judicial in his against, in addition to a interference opened and illegal in the internal life of the organization, to the degree of intending to impose to him by conduit of the STPS - then to cargo of Francisco Salazar Saenz -, a corruptive leadership.

With the traffic of the federal administration of Fox to the federal
Administration of Calderon not only was not reversed the obstinacy official against the miners and their union, but is get worse: thus it demonstrates it the persistence of the harasses judicial in against of the directing maximum of the union and the offensive undertaken, to instances of the current titular of the STPS, Francisco Javier Alarcon, against the strike of the section 65 of the mining union maintains from July of 2007 in the mine of Sonora, Cananea. For addition, the crusade anti union of the federal administration of Calderon has been amplified toward other unions, as currently it can be observed with harass in against of the Mexican Electricians union, the union of Aviation Mexicana and with the governmental purpose of extinguishing, way decree, to the decentralized organization Light and Force of the Center, depriving thus to the organization of their work matter.

Request the SCJN to observe the mining worker human rights
The International Commission for the Rights of the workers (ICLR), presented bring face to face the Supreme Justice Court of the Nation (SCJN) a document amicus curiae in mean the one which hundred of organizations of lawyers and defending of the human rights as well as studious of the right to Europe, United States, and Canada request to him that are observed the union and human freedom rights of the integrating of the national union of mining workers (SNTMSRM).

This document was presented yesterday (Sep 21, 10) in front of the president minister of the SCJN, Guillermo Ortiz Mayagoitia, and in the same 46 international organizations of jurists and attorneys, request the application of the law under global procedures in union freedom matter and especially request the maximum legal instance of our country that is kind enough to apply the agreement 87 of the International Organization of the Work (IOW), in benefit of the association freedom of the mining union. Though this legal brief figures memorial amicus curiae, it is not recognized in Mexico.

The tragedy constitutes an inflection point from which have been demoted profoundly the occupational conditions in the country, is there has pervert the exercise of the public brand in benefit of the interest of the capital and it has been generated, in short, a uncertainty panorama, growing uncertainty for the personnel, worker, their families, and for Mexico as a rule. (La Jornada, editorial, p. 2, February 19, 2010).