The pensioners of Mexicana

National Do eight thousand workers say, until when will it be solved the problem of the pensions? The pensioners of Mexicana By: Carlos Damian February 10, 2014 The funds of the pensioners “were not played" Mexico. - A group of workers of the Company Mexicana of Aviation (CMA) sustained yesterday (2/6/14) an umpteenth encounter with integral of the fideicommissum that administers the CMA (Mexicana) airline, without capitalization and ruined by its former proprietor Gaston Azcarraga, with the purpose of achieving the payment of the pensions that they are owed for months. As Mexicana you will remember, after being “rescued” and cleaned up with public money, it was "discorporate" in 2005, during Vicente Fox’s six years, and sold to the Posada Group (owner of the hotel complex), where Azcarraga was majority shareholder and some said that it was “undersold”, to the factic power group of Televisa Co. In less than five years, the private administration dismantled the company and it took it to a virtual crash that gave place to a mercantile competition that has not still been solved. In the process, those affected immediate they have been the workers, among which we can write down technicians and manual, administrative, flight attendants and pilots, and among them; the pensioners, people that in fact have been those most harmed ones, because they lack possibilities of obtaining another employment. But the lingering closing of the airlines has also been horribly onerous for the country and for the economy, particularly for the tourist sector and users of the air transport, which have been exposed to outrages of Mexicana’s old competitors that when being owners of the market, and of the specific destinations of this ruin, they have incurred in all luck of practical abusive and monopolists. Remember you like in the last administration, characterized by their political labor slave and anti-syndicalism that were executed in an implacable way by the former secretary of Work Javier Lozano Alarcon against miners and metallurgists, electricians and the own workers of the airline in difficulties, in sum the federal government who unchained the serious problem, was he ignored of the social and economic problem and it bet everything to the waste and death of those affected as a form of extinguishing the conflict. During the first year of EPN the government attitude didn't change in significant form with regard to which they had its predecessors, and in spite of the exhort formulated last week for the current executive of the Secretary of Work and of Social Forecast (STPS, their initials in Spanish), Alfonso Navarrete Prida, so that he is solved once and it for all the mercantile competition, more of Mexicana’s thousand workers, retired or they don't continue without being able to make effective the perceptions and benefits that correspond them, all time that has never been declared extinct the labor relationship between the company and its employees They are eight thousand workers affected by the conflict memebers of the technical committee of the Fideicommissum of Mexican of Aviation, they presented yesterday their renouncement, after retired workers of the airline demanded it. Starting from this Friday (2/7/14), the new administration of the fideicommissum of more than 5 million dollars (USD) it will be in charge of workers in retirement of Mexicana, to who the company will provide them the available information, infrastructure and consultant ship that require related with the fideicommissum F/797 for the acting of its responsibilities, because will designate an person or several people. The agreement was summed up after both parts sustained a negotiation table of more than five hours and in the one that the liberation of the resources of the payment of pensions was approached for the workers in retirement. From 5:00 AM in the morning of this day the pensioners of Mexican, accompanied for integral of the Popular Barzon, blocked the main accesses and the parking of the tower that it belonged to the airline, located in avenue Xola, in the colonia del Valle, to impede the step to the workers. They are not according with this situation also placed in the windows greatest cardboards and placards with watchwords, besides a black casket in the main door of the building in bereavement sign for the forced landing of Mexicana that takes three and an inactive half years. In the encounter to the one that the leader of the Popular Barzon attended Moral Crecencio Avila like witness, a official paper was signed. In the document 13 people that are part of the technical committee present their renouncement with character of irrevocable, which they gave to the administrator-conciliatory Gerardo Badin and the trustee. They also settled the appointment of the new members of technical committee conformed by eight retired workers of Mexicana. "This is a historical day for the retired workers of Mexicana by virtue of that we have recovered our fideicommissum that was kidnapped by the company that refused to pay our pensions in all moment and to reveal the movements. What we are obtaining with the support of this popular movement is that we recover this fideicommissum. The company committed to surrender the whole necessary documentation to make an audit, to effect of identifying to the presumed responsible for the bad handlings or the null bottom of the same one", Happy Warring Diaz manifested, president of the Association of Pensioners, workers and former workers of Mexicana who it was to the front of the new committee. Those money were not played The Mexican Company of Aviation (CMA), it informed this Thursday that the money that is in the Fideicommissums for pensions and jubilations of the Personnel of Mexican doesn't form part of the mass contestant of the airlines and “it has not been played". The funds of the three Fideicommissums for pensions and the personal pilots' jubilations and flight attendants, they have not been played, except for the willing one for the technical committee, the Secretary of Government (Department of the Interior), and the Secretary of the Work and Social Forecast (STPS), for the case of the retired flight attendants, it said the Company in an official statement diffused hours after a protest of pensioners of CMA. It explained that in the case of the Fideicommissum for Flight attendants and retired Flight attendants, it is the technical committee, the only independent and autonomous entity that has the emporium to value the situation, to decide and to give the instruction so that the resources are used that are in the fideicommissums. The committee is formed by retired and members of flight attendants; they are part of the union designated by the ASSA of Mexico and employees of the company. On the other hand the parliamentary group of the PRD in the Chamber of Deputies demanded the federal government a resolution worthy to the conflict that affects to more than 8 thousand workers of CMA. Legislators Luis Manuel Arias, Eliana Gonzalez, Fernando Cuellar and Agustin Barrios Gomez, they considered that “neither the ridiculous liquidations that offer neither any other palliative, the workers solve in precarious state of unemployment. The bottom of the matter is in preserving the employment source, but to the investors implied in particular they are blocked insistently". When receiving to a group of unemployed of Mexicana, the legislators considered that the offered liquidation doesn't solve the bottom problem, because the excellent thing is to preserve the work source. For Begona Lopez, spokeswoman of CMA’s workers, the process in that they are the negotiations mercantile -competition - it is not clear, because they have passed more than 30 potential investors and up to now all the competitions have been broken to save to the company. At the end of this matter it ibecomes imperative that the judicial instances in charge of the case speed up the solution; otherwise, the current government should begin to think about outlines of public intervention to guarantee the rights of the workers of CMA and even to make possible that the airline operates again. The matter is urgent, not only for the infuriating situation that many workers live, but because every day that passes in suspension of activities the airline its patrimony it is also shrunk, and because the national market of the air transport requires of a bigger competitiveness for the users' benefit and of the tourist sector. (La Jornada, política, p.p. 6 - 27, February 7, 2014).