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WNU #1007: Mexican Government Fires 41,000 Electrical Workers
“This is a turning point,” labor analyst Dan La Botz wrote. “The Mexican government's attack on the Mexican Electrical Workers Union--a union central to resisting government policies and building labor and social movement coalitions, and located in Mexico City, which is the center of political opposition to the government--may well turn out to be a watershed event in the country's recent history.”
Weekly News Update on the Americas
Issue #1007, October 11, 2009
1. Mexico: Government Fires 41,000 Workers
2. Haiti: Soros and Mevs Group to Build Maquila Park
3. Cuba: CIA Papers on Posada Released
4. Links to alternative sources on: Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico
ISSN#: 1084‑922X. Weekly News Update on the Americas covers news from Latin America and the Caribbean, compiled and written from a progressive perspective. It has been published weekly by the Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York since 1990. For a subscription, write to weeklynewsupdate [at] gmail.com . It is archived at http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/
*1. Mexico: Government Fires 43,000 Workers
At around 11 pm the night of Oct. 10, Mexican soldiers and federal police agents occupied facilities of the government-owned Central Light and Power Company (LFC) in Mexico City and several central Mexican states, reportedly using force to remove workers on the night shift. About an hour later Mexican president Felipe Calderón Hinojosa’s center-right administration published a decree liquidating the company and terminating some 41,000 active employees. The decree promised respect for the workers’ labor rights: the government said it would guarantee severance pay and pensions, at an estimated cost of some $20 billion pesos ($1.512 billion).
The independent Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME), which represents about 43,000 active workers and 23,000 retirees, had warned in late September that the government might attempt to seize the facilities [see Update #1006]. But the military and police operation on a Saturday night seemed to take SME leaders by surprise. The leaders had met with President Calderón’s private secretary, Luis Felipe Bravo Mena, on Oct. 8 and were expecting a response from the president on Oct. 12. [...]
Read the full Update:
http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/2009/10/wnu-1007-mexican-government-fires-41000.html
Issue #1007, October 11, 2009
1. Mexico: Government Fires 41,000 Workers
2. Haiti: Soros and Mevs Group to Build Maquila Park
3. Cuba: CIA Papers on Posada Released
4. Links to alternative sources on: Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico
ISSN#: 1084‑922X. Weekly News Update on the Americas covers news from Latin America and the Caribbean, compiled and written from a progressive perspective. It has been published weekly by the Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York since 1990. For a subscription, write to weeklynewsupdate [at] gmail.com . It is archived at http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/
*1. Mexico: Government Fires 43,000 Workers
At around 11 pm the night of Oct. 10, Mexican soldiers and federal police agents occupied facilities of the government-owned Central Light and Power Company (LFC) in Mexico City and several central Mexican states, reportedly using force to remove workers on the night shift. About an hour later Mexican president Felipe Calderón Hinojosa’s center-right administration published a decree liquidating the company and terminating some 41,000 active employees. The decree promised respect for the workers’ labor rights: the government said it would guarantee severance pay and pensions, at an estimated cost of some $20 billion pesos ($1.512 billion).
The independent Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME), which represents about 43,000 active workers and 23,000 retirees, had warned in late September that the government might attempt to seize the facilities [see Update #1006]. But the military and police operation on a Saturday night seemed to take SME leaders by surprise. The leaders had met with President Calderón’s private secretary, Luis Felipe Bravo Mena, on Oct. 8 and were expecting a response from the president on Oct. 12. [...]
Read the full Update:
http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/2009/10/wnu-1007-mexican-government-fires-41000.html
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