CWAers Join 'Global Days of Action' in Solidarity with Mexico's Workers

At a demonstration at the Mexican embassy, CWA Executive Vice President Annie Hill calls on the Mexican government to uphold workers' rights.

In a show of outrage and solidarity, CWA members joined other unions Wednesday to protest Mexico's violations of workers' rights. The demonstration, outside the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C., is part of a series of "Global Days of Action" being mounted by unions worldwide to demand that Mexico comply with its own laws and international standards on human and trade union rights.

The campaign calls on Mexico's leaders:

• To hold employers and government officials accountable for a mine explosion that killed 65 miners in 2006.
• To abolish violations of workers' freedom of association and end the use of force against workers seeking union representation.
• To end a campaign of persecution against the Mexican miners and electrical workers' unions.

Call center workers at Telefonica/Atento Mexicana were met with brass knuckle-carrying thugs in 2010 when voting to join the independent Mexican Telephone Workers' Union (STRM). CWA has worked closely with STRM, as well as other Mexican unions trying to bring truly democratic labor rights to workers.

CWA's affiliate in Europe, UNI Global Union joined in the week of action by meeting with the Mexican ambassador to the United Nations and holding a rally in Geneva, Switzerland.

Follow the campaign on Twitter with the hash tag #mexicoaction or go to www.uniglobalunion.org/MexicoAction to show your support.