Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 15:32:45 +0100 From: Jordi Martorell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fwd: Puerto Rico General Strike Info MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Puerto Rico General Strike Info Sent: 6/7/1998 7:29 am Received: 6/7/1998 2:20 pm From: Cesar J. Ayala, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Friends, The following pages on the Internet contain text and pictures of the Telecomm Strike in Puerto Rico which will become a general strike on Tuesday. César Ayala Pagina José Fortuno: Huelga del Pueblo Contra la Privatización (Bilingual) http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/9169/ Huelga General en Puerto Rico (Bilingual) http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Heights/5368/huelga.html Página Unión Trabajadores Industria Electrica y Riego (En español) nhttp://www.utier.org/solidaridad.html P'a la Huelga del Pueblo (En español) http://palahuelga.rforest.net La Red Obrera (Inglaterra) ( En español) http://www.labournet.org.uk/spanish/ Labour Net (Inglaterra) (In English) http://www.labournet.org.uk/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 16:20:20 +0100 From: LabourNet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fwd: 24 Hours to the General Strike in Puerto Rico MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain *********** BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE *********** On 7/6/98, at 12:14 PM, Carlos Quiros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >24 Hours to the General Strike in Puerto Rico > >Jose Fortuno >for a-infos > >The General Strike, convocked by the Broad Committe of Trade Unions, will >begin today at midnigth. It is expected that hundreds of thousands of >workers >unite the movement, with a stoppage of the government opperations and >several >sectors of the economy. > >Speaking on the General Strike, Annie Cruz, spokesman for CAOS, said that >the >members of over 60 trade unions would be stopping their work and picketing >their work centers from 4:00 a.m. to 12:00 m. > >Between 12:00 m. to 1:00 p.m., there will be automovile caravans and >demonstrations all over the island, and between 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. there >will >be concentrations in 45 places around the island. Those include hospitals, >government offices, ports, the bank zone, malls and several campuses of the >University of Puerto Rico. > >We are going to make pressure on the industry, the banks, and commerce, >because those are the ones that identify with the interest of the governor, >and they are whom we have to press so the governor, at least, accepts to >celebrate a referendum, said the leader of the telephone workers, and >stressed that we will not let the employees get to their work places. > >Cruz said that in citites like New York, Tampa, Dallas and in the state of >California there will be picketing and recollections in front of Banco >Popular >branches and GTE offices, that, to this moment, are the buyers for the >Telephone Company, as well as the Citibank, the financing entity for GTE. > >On Tuesday at 5:00 p.m., a news comference will be staged, and then the >demonstrations will go on. > >Although Cruz did not rule out that the basic services could be affected, >she >said that this is a strike of the Puerto Rican people, and not against the >Puerto Rican people, and, in that way, they do not approve the sabotage to >governments faccilities that, are contradictory and, instead of helping the >cause, get it backwards. > >She used the opportunity also to clarify her sayings on a similarity >between >the stoppage and the coming of a hurricane, saying that when I was comaring >this to when a hurricane is coming, I was talking about the government and >the >big interests, those tht are pressing on the working people and are for >privatization policy. > >On Wednesday, the strategy will differ a little, because they will >concetrate >large quantities of people in just five places, in San Juan, Caguas, >Arecibo, >Ponce and Mayaguez. > >On the possibility that violent acts may occur at the picket lines and >concentration places, Cruz said that we dont want violence nor blood. We >are >going to make our activities without violenco, but, if they want violence, >we >are going to have to respond in some way, because we have to defend >ourselves... we are not going to do as Jesus Christ, to give the other >cheek. > >On the aggenda after the General Strike, she said that on Thursday, they >would >evaluate the results, in order to establish new strategies, to know if we >can >go on with the Telephone workers strike, of will stop it at some moment. > >Cruz will go on a five minutes TV message tonight, to call the people to >unite >to the General Strike. > >In the last few days, the popular support for the strike has been growing. >In >opinion polls, the majority is for the stoppage. At every moment, hundreds >of >cars pass by the picket lines and the people express their support. This is >in >sharp contrast with a traditional negative attitude of the public opinion >towards the strikes and the trade unions. > >The only other general strike in Puerto Ricos history was on 1934, when the >countrys economy was mostly agriculture. > >This Puerto Rican workers struggle is not for more money or for working >conditions. It is a struggle to stop the neo-liberal policy that gives up >the states' companies to the big transnational capital. > > >_______________________________________________________________ > >LUCHA SI - ENTREGA NO > >Find more information at >http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/9169/ > >
