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DESCRIPTION:The Current Situation in Mexico After the Election of Andrés Manuel López 
 Obrador and the Need for Greater Cross-Border Solidarity\n\nMexican 
 Congressman Fernández Noroña\n\nSpecial FORUM in San Francisco, CA 
 Featuring Mexican Member of Congress\n\nJosé Gerardo Fernández 
 Noroña\n\n(for the Workers Party / PT, which partnered with MORENA to run 
 AMLO for president)\n\nSaturday, March 2 @4p.m.\nHall of ILWU Local 34\n4 
 Berry St./801 2nd St. Free Parking\n(next to Giants’ Ballpark) San 
 Francisco, CA\nFor more information, call 415-216-5346\n\nCongressman 
 Fernández Noroña meets with delegation of LCLAA Sacramento in Mexican 
 Congress on Nov. 28, 2018\n\nInitial List of Sponsors:\n\nSan Francisco 
 Labor Council (AFL-CIO), LIUNA Laborers’ Local 270, Instituto Laboral de 
 la Raza, Sacramento Chapter of the Labor Council for Latin American 
 Advancement\n\n  \nReport on the Meeting with Congressman Gerardo 
 Fernández Noroña — November 28, 2018 (Congress of the Union, Mexico 
 City) —\n\nOn November 28, 2018, Congressman José Gerardo Fernán- dez 
 Noroña received a delegation from the National Independent and Democratic 
 Union of Farm Workers (SINDJA) and the Al- liance of National, State and 
 Municipal Organizations for Social Justice of the Valley of San Quintín, 
 Baja California. They were accompanied by leaders of the Sacramento 
 (California) chapter of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement 
 (LCLAA), affiliated to the AFL-CIO.\n\n\nThe Sacramento LCLAA delegates 
 have been spearheading the effort across the United States in support of 
 the farm workers in San Quintin through the Driscoll's Corp. boycott 
 campaign.\n\nDuring their meeting, which was held in the offices of the 
 Mexi- can Congress, the trade unionists from California asked Congressman 
 Fernández Noroña his position\n\non the new free trade agreement, known 
 in Mexico as the T-MEC and in the United States as the USMCA. Congressman 
 Fernández Noroña explained that in his speech before the Congress on 
 October 2, 2018 [see excerpts below], he had been very clear, stating: 
 “The treaty, which according to Donald Trump is ‘very good,’ is 
 deeply harmful to our national interests.”\n\nHaving said that — 
 despite the struggle waged by Congressman Fernández Noroña and many 
 others in opposition to the ratification of the new trade agreement (so 
 that “Mexicans do not have to pay its con- sequences dearly”) — 
 everything seems to indicate that this T-MEC treaty will be signed. In this 
 new sit- uation, Congressman Fernández Noroña said, what needs to be 
 done, given that the T-MEC treaty placed much emphasis on wages and labor 
 rights, is to push for the implementation of the language on labor rights 
 and working conditions contained in the new treaty. “Ensuring that there 
 are mechanisms to implement labor laws will be essential,” he said. And 
 if those rights are not respected, if they are not im- plemented, he 
 continued, then U.S. transnational corporations, as well as their Mexican 
 partners, will have to be prohibited from exporting their products to the 
 United States.\n\nThe delegates of SINDJA and of the Alianza, for their 
 part, delivered to Congressman Fernández Noroña a document signed by the 
 top leaders of both their organizations. In that document, SINDJA and the 
 Alianza affirmed their stance in relation to the new Free Trade Agreement: 
 They called for an end to the “protection” contracts with charro 
 (company) unions such as the CROM and the CROC, and they proposed that the 
 next National Referendum should take up the issue of the T-MEC 
 treaty.\n\n"We will denounce any and all violations of workers’ 
 rights,” Congressman Fernández Noroña told the delegation, “and we 
 will help promote the mobilizations to demand that labor rights are upheld, 
 so that genuine collective-bargaining agreements are signed in San Quintin 
 and throughout the country."\n\nCongressman Fernández Noroña promised to 
 publicize at the national level the struggle and demands of the farm 
 workers of San Quintin, "so that we can begin to resolve and end the brutal 
 social injustice that exists in the country," he told the delegation. "We 
 must deepen the revolution that has been un- leashed, and we must rescue 
 our homeland.”\n\nThe meeting concluded with the commitment by 
 Congressman Fernández Noroña to travel to Ense- nada and San Quintín, 
 Baja California, to support the movement. "San Quintin is a national 
 reference point," said Congressman Fernández Noroña. "The tenacious 
 struggle of the farm workers has forced the government to legally recognize 
 the new independent union and grant its official registration, but from the 
 point of view of the demands, nothing has been resolved," he added.\n\nIn 
 addition to traveling to San Quintin in the near future, Congressman 
 Fernández Noroña accepted an invitation from the Sacramento delegates to 
 travel to cities in California at the beginning of March 2019 in 
 coordination with other unions, universities and Mexicans Living Abroad. \n 
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SUMMARY:The Mass Mexican Workers Strikes: Report By Cong. Fernández Noroña
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34\n4 Berry St./801 2nd St. Free Parking\n(next to Giants’ 
 Ballpark) San Francisco, CA\nFor more information, call 415-216-5346
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