Mexican Union Takes on Employee Free Choice Fight

STRM leaders deliver letter supporting Employee Free Choice to U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.

Leaders of STRM, the independent telephone workers union in Mexico, delivered a letter to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, urging support for the Employee Free Choice Act.

Unions around the world are supporting the campaign to restore workers' bargaining and organizing rights in the United States.

CWA President Larry Cohen proposed this strategy at a recent Union Network International meeting; at least 100 visits by global union leaders are expected to take place.

Delivering the letter in Mexico City were STRM leaders   Jorge Castillo Magaña,  Deputy Secretary General;  Enrique Fabela Rocha, Secretary of External Affairs and Alliances; and Rafael Marino Roche, head of the Political Action Department.