Can the head of the union return to Mexico safely yet? On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 09:41:42PM -0400, Julio Huato wrote: > A brief update on the situation of the miners' strikes in Mexico. > Some positive developments. > > The national union of mining and metal workers are staging 2 strikes, > each against a different company and in a different place in Mexico. > One in Cananea (Sonora, in northwestern Mexico, a few miles from > Nogales, AZ) and Taxco (Guerrero, southwestern Mexico, in between > Acapulco and Mexico City). > > The good news is that a federal judge granted legal validity to the > strikes by ruling in favor of the union and against resources of > injunction interposed by the companies in both cases. The miners in > Sombrerete (Zacatecas, central Mexico) may go on strike as well for > their own reasons. > > In all cases, the main demand for the strikes is improvement in > working conditions -- basically safety and hygiene.
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