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DESCRIPTION:Sep 4  Global Day Of Action For Mexican Workers\n \nDefense of Trade Union 
 Rights in Mexico\n From Matamoros and Tecate to San Quintin:\n• Stop the 
 Firings of Union Organizers! • Contracts with Independent Unions 
 Now!\n• Rehire All Fired Workers with Back Pay!\n\nProtest at Rockwell 
 Automation in San José\nWed., Sept. 4 @ 10 a.m.\nRockwell Automation 
 Electric Vehicle Innovation Center\n111 North Market, San Jose, CA\n\n 
 Informational Picketing\nin San Francisco, CA\n\n\nBoycott 
 Driscoll’s\nProtest at Rockwell Automation in San José\nWed., Sept. 4 @ 
 10 a.m.\nRockwell Automation Electric Vehicle Innovation Center\n111 North 
 Market, San Jose, CA\n Informational Picketing\nin San Francisco, CA\nWed., 
 Sept. 4 @ 6 pm\nWhole Foods, Noe Valley 3950 - 24th Street, San 
 Francisco\n(also boycott picketing across Calif.)\n\nEndorsed 
 by\nSacramento Labor Council, AFL-CIO; LIUNA Local 270; UPWA.info; 
 Sacramento Chapter, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, AFL-CIO; 
 and Binational Campaign Against "Free Trade," Privatizations and 
 Deportations\n\nFor more information, contact: (916) 712-4251\n\nResolution 
 in Support of Independent Trade Unionism in Mexico\n[Note: Following are 
 excerpts from the resolution adopted unanimously by the Delegates Assembly 
 of the San Francisco Labor Council (AFL-CIO) on Monday, August 12, 
 2019.]\nWHEREAS:\n• More than 36,000 workers in the maquiladoras 
 [export-oriented sweatshops] of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, went on strike at 
 the beginning of the year for up to four months to demand a 20% wage 
 increase and the promised 32,000 pesos end-of-year bonus — ultimately 
 winning their strike, an historic victory, and winning federal government 
 recognition of their independent union, the SNITIS, on June 27, 2019.\n• 
 What was accomplished in Matamoros quickly spread to the rest of the 
 maquiladora plants across the entire border corridor, especially to the 
 border town of Tecate, Baja California, where workers requested to join the 
 newly formed SNITIS.\n• In retaliation, U.S. transnational corporations 
 in Matamoros and at the Rockwell Automation plant in Tecate fired hundreds 
 of workers and black-listed them because of their union organizing 
 efforts.\n• Farmworker union leaders and organizers in the Valley of San 
 Quintin, Baja California, also have been black-listed and thus prevented 
 from getting jobs in the region, while Driscoll's Corp. refuses to break 
 its sweet-heart contracts with its company unions (CROM, CROC and 
 CTM).\n• Mexico's new federal labor law, adopted in April 2019, calls for 
 workers to be able to join the union of their choice without reprisals or 
 intimidation by the bosses or local governments, as established in ILO 
 Convention 98, also recently adopted by the Mexican Congress. Still, U.S. 
 transnational corporations based in the maquiladora corridor and in the 
 agricultural fields of Mexico, especially in the San Quintin Valley, 
 continue to violate Mexico's federal labor law.\n• Independent unionism 
 is key to raising Mexico's wages and improving working conditions, thereby 
 promoting economic development and lessening the pressure for people from 
 Mexico (and this applies to Central America as well) to cross the border in 
 search of the means to sustain their families; and\n• Rockwell Automation 
 (based in Milwaukee, but with an office in San Jose, CA), and Driscoll's 
 Corporation (based in Watsonville, CA) have been targeted by a broad 
 coalition of labor and community organizations spearheaded by Sacramento 
 LCLAA (AFL-CIO) for cross-border labor solidarity actions on Wednesday, 
 September 4, 2019, to demand full respect for labor rights in Mexico and 
 for independent unionism, as stipulated in Mexico's federal labor law, and 
 to demand that all workers fired for their trade union activity be 
 reinstated, with back pay.\nTHEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED:\n• That the S.F. 
 Labor Council endorse and help publicize the September 4 Cross-Border 
 Solidarity Day of Action to demand that U.S. transnational corporations — 
 especially Rockwell Automation and Driscoll's — respect and abide by 
 Mexico's federal labor law and that they reinstate all workers fired for 
 their trade union activity, with back pay.\nHold the Date: September 16 
 March & Protest in San Francisco (and other cities) to Close the Camps and 
 Free the Children!; Amnesty & Full Rights Now!; No Ban, No Wall; End ICE!\n 
 For more information, call 415-206-0577.\n \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/26/18825730.php
SUMMARY:Sep 4 Global Day Of Action For Mexican Workers
LOCATION:Boycott Driscoll’s\nProtest at Rockwell Automation in San José\nWed., 
 Sept. 4 @ 10 a.m.\nRockwell Automation Electric Vehicle Innovation 
 Center\n111 North Market, San Jose, CA\n Informational Picketing\nin San 
 Francisco, CA\nWed., Sept. 4 @ 6 pm\nWhole Foods, Noe Valley 3950 - 24th 
 Street, San Francisco\n(also boycott picketing across Calif.)\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/26/18825730.php
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