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- Subject: NEWS:AmerAirlines Fires Dominican Workers
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- Via The NY Transfer News Service ^ All the News that Doesn't Fit
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- AMERICAN AIRLINES FIRES WORKERS IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
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- By Veronica Golos
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- American Airlines has fired 62 workers in the Dominican Republic
- for union organizing. The newly organized union, SINATRAA
- (Sindicato Nacional Trabajadores-American Airlines), covers
- baggage handlers.
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- The firing is an important test of the Dominican Republic's newly
- won labor law. The new law provides for collective bargaining, the
- right to organize unions, and the protection of workers' jobs when
- they do organize.
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- The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) here in
- the U.S. has initiated a support campaign for the sister union.
- Wilfredo Larancuent, International Representative, has gathered
- signatures of trade union leaders on a protest letter to Robert
- Crandall, American Airlines' president and CEO.
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- American has the largest share of flights to the island.
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- The CTU (Confederacion de Trabajadores Unitaria), one of the
- largest labor federations in the Dominican Republic, has put up
- picket lines in the capital, Santo Domingo, at the offices of
- American Airlines, and has filed a complaint with the
- International Labor Organization. The CTU is claiming collusion
- between the Dominican government and American Airlines, saying the
- government is not enforcing the law as it applies to airlines.
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- The CTU and SINATRAA are calling on unions around the world to
- send messages demanding American Airlines respect workers' rights
- everywhere. For more information, contact: ACTWU, Wilfredo
- Larancuent, International Representative, 15 Union Square, New
- York 10003, or phone (212) 674-1800.
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- (Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted if
- source is cited. For more info contact Workers World,46 W. 21 St.,
- New York, NY 10010; "workers@igc.apc.org".)
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