Urgent Appeal: Write to the Mexican goverment

Please write to the Mexican government and demand the revocation of the government decree liquidating Luz y Fuerza del Centro and respect for the Mexican Electrical Workers’ Union’s collective agreement.

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Estimado President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa:

I am writing to express my alarm and serious concern about your government’s decision to send in Federal Police to occupy the Luz y Fuerza del Centro facilities and to subsequently issue a decree expressing your government’s intent to liquidate the company and to dismiss its 40,000 unionized workers.

I am extremely concerned that your actions will result in the elimination of the Electrical Workers’ Union members' collective bargaining agreement which also represents 15,000 retirees. These actions are a clear indication that your government is determined to eliminate one of Mexico’s oldest and most respected democratic unions, and is prepared to violate recognized international labour standards in order to do so.

I would therefore strongly urge that your government do the following: 
•  Revoke the decree liquidating Luz y Fuerza del Centro;
•  Respect the workers’ employment and labour rights;
•  Respect the Mexican Electrical Workers’ Union’s collective agreement; and
•  Unconditionally recognize the SME’s democratically elected union leadership and respect for the union’s autonomy.

People and organizations around the world will be closely monitoring your government’s actions in the coming period, and we urge you to fully respect the rights of the members of the Mexican Electrical Workers’ Union and negotiate in good faith with the elected leadership of the union for a just resolution to this dispute.

Respectfully,

with Copies to: 
B. Fernando Gómez Mont, Home Secretary
B. Francisco Javier Lozano Alarcón, Labor Secretary
B. Francisco Ramírez Acuña, President of the Deputies’ Chamber Board  
B. Carlos Navarrete Ruiz, President of the Senators’ Chamber Board  
Ministro Guillermo I. Ortiz Mayagoitia, President Minister of the Supreme Court