Labour Start Mexico: Support electrical workers union

http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=1239 - On October 10, 2009, police and military forces forcibly removed over 44,000 electrical workers from over 400 workplaces across the central Mexico region.  The workers are represented by the Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME, Sindicato Mexicano de Electrisistas) and worked for the electrical company Luz y Fuerza del Centro. The presidential decree that the security forces acted upon dissolved the company, intentionally and illegally breaking one of Mexico's oldest and strongest collective bargaining agreements. The assets and facilities that had previously belonged to LyFC were transferred to another state-owned electrical company, Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE, or Federal Electricity Commission) which operates with a sweetheart union and subcontracts much of its work to small and unregulated private outfits. The work that was previously performed by highly skilled union workers in safe conditions is now carried out by mainly undocumented workers with no real union rights. These workers face serious risks in the workplace; 30 have died - electrocuted- in the 2 years since Luz y Fuerza was shut down...join the Labour Start Campaig to help these Electricity workers at
http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=1239
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