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Complaint lodged over persecution of Mexico electrical workers
28 Outubro 2011
Key labour and social rights organisations - including the ITF - have signed a complaint that was submitted to the authority administering the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC) over the persistent repression of electrical workers in Mexico.
The NAALC, an agreement that supplements the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), is signed by the US, Mexico and Canada and came into force on 1 January 1994. Its aims include promoting a set of guiding labour principles and compliance and enforcement of labour laws.
The complaint highlights how in 2009, the Mexican government used soldiers to invade and shut down the Mexico City electrical generation plant, dismissed 44,000 workers, destroyed their collective agreement and proceeded to harass and intimidate them and their union the Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (SME). These actions blatantly violate the NAFTA agreement, as well as Mexico’s labour laws and constitution.
The more than 80 signatories include: the subject of the complaint, the SME, the ITF, other global union federations, the International Trade Union Confederation, the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), Canadian and US unions, such as the United Steel Workers (USW), and social rights organisations.
“We have had a free trade deal with Mexico for almost 18 years and it is accompanied by a side deal on labour rights,” said Ken Neumann, United Steel Workers national director for Canada. “The Mexican government has failed to enforce basic labour rights enshrined in the NAALC, and in other international treaties, and is using delay tactics to prevent justice from being done. The Mexican government continues to abuse its own citizens by ignoring the agreement it signed to protect labour rights. This challenge must be met with real action.”
Hassan Yussuff, CLC secretary-treasurer, accompanied Martin Esparza and Jose Humberto, leaders of the SME, who were in Ottawa on 27 October to submit the complaint.
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