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- From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
- Subject: LABOR: MEXICAN GOVERNMENT SIDES WITH VOLKSWAGEN AGAINST WORKERS
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- Topic 201 NNY:Mexican Government Sides
- hrcoord apc.labour 2:32 pm Aug 25, 1992
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- Subject: NNY:Mexican Government Sides
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- /* Written 8:46 pm Aug 23, 1992 by nicanetny in cdp:reg.nicaragua */
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- 18. MEXICAN GOVERNMENT SIDES WITH VOLKSWAGEN AGAINST WORKERS
- Mexico's Federal Council of Arbitration and Conciliation ruled on
- Aug. 17 that the German auto transnational Volkswagen was free to
- rescind its contract with more than 14,000 workers at its plant
- in Puebla. [ED-LP 8/18/92 from AFP] The labor dispute began last
- month when workers rejected an agreement union head Gaspar Bueno
- negotiated with Volkswagen; dissidents charged that the union
- leadership had received a bribe of $160,000 from management. [ED-
- LP 8/23/92 from EFE] Militants staged escalating strikes starting
- July 21. Protraying itself as the victim of a struggle within the
- union, the company shut the plant down on July 28. (See Update
- #131) The federal labor board's ruling in management's favor came
- after a meeting of some 8,000 unionists on Aug.15 voted
- unanimously to remove Bueno from office and hold new elections.
- [ED-LP 8/17/92 from AFP] Volkswagen has now hired back about 95%
- of the work force--minus the leading dissidents. [ED-LP 8/23/92
- from EFE]
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- In other labor news, the representatives of 228 textile companies
- broke off talks with a labor coalition on Aug. 18. The workers
- have been on strike since July 9, with an initial demand for a
- 40% pay hike. Although the workers have come down to 15%,
- management refuses to budge from its first offer of 10%. [ED-LP
- 8/19/92 from AFP]
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- Meanwhile, human rights groups demonstrated outside the
- Republican Convention in Houston to protest the administration's
- treatment of Mexican immigrants. Maria Jimenez, director of the
- Project for Monitoring Immigration Laws, charged that the
- Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) had killed 32
- immigrant workers since 1986, and suggested that the Republican
- Party platform's immigration plank left the way open for
- constructing huge fences along the border. Noting that the US
- government had stressed its good relations with Mexico during the
- North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) talks, Jimenez said:
- "The White House is proud of the fall of the Berlin Wall, but at
- the same time it plans to build one next to Mexico." [ED-LP
- 8/23/92 from Notimex]
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