Protests staged at Mexican Embassies around the world in Solidarity with Mexican Electrician Workers Union.
Members of the ETU in Canberra Australia.
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Members of the TEEU, SIPTU and other unions in Dublin, Ireland in a show of Solidarity Mexican Electrician Workers Union.
(A letter endorsing the recent motion of the Global Power Trade Unions congress was handed in by Eamon Devoy of the TEEU.
See short video of the protest on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uWZpxZmre0)
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A letter of support from the Swedish Union of electricians was delivered to the Mexican Embassy.
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artial extract of the letter reads.
"On behalf of the Swedish Electricians’ Union I write to you in concern for our electrical brothers and sisters in Mexico and to protest against the anti-union and anti-workers treatment you government has shown.
I’m deeply concerned that the Mexican government can treat its own people in these manners.
I writing about the dispute there is between the Mexican Electricians Union (SME) and the federal government.
The Union has been involved in one particular struggle since 2009 and they are seeking the return to employment of 16,599 workers of Luz y Fuerza del Centro (LyFC) who did not accept a settlement since being sacked on 10 October 2009..." Click for full copy of the letter >>
Response from the Mexican Ambassador on the letter
Extract.
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A letter of support from the Danish Union of electricians was delivered to the Mexican Embassy.
Partial extract of the letter.
"On behalf of the Danish Union of Electricians I write to you in concern for our electrical brothers and sisters in Mexico and to protest against the anti‐union and anti‐workers treatment your government has shown. In an attempt to crush Mexico's oldest democratic Union the SME, the previous president Felipe Calderón used an executive order to shut down the utility Company overnight sacking the entire 44,000 workforce. The SME have fought for those workers' jobs back ever since.
And in this workers conflict 6 to 9 union person has been in jail for nearly two years. We call on the Mexican Government to find an immediate solution to the workers demands. The conflict should be solved by negotiations between the Mexican Government and the SME, the conflict should not be allowed to continue in detriment to thousands of workers and their families." Click for full copy of the letter >>