Morning Star.png Argentina Seafarers Fighting State Seizure Of Union International workers rally round The Morning Star, London, 9 July 2016 Transport workers around the world are rallying around their comrades in Argentina where the right-wing government has seized control of seafarers' union SOMU. The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) complained to the International Labour Organisation on Thursday after the union's leaders were hounded out of office by methods "taking us back to the era of the military dictatorship." The ITF demanded that the government immediately hands back control of the union to its elected leadership and its members. "This interference by the Argentinian government restricts the rights of SOMU, its officials and its members to organise their administration and activities in full freedom," the ILO complaint reads. ITF general secretary Stephen Cotton has written to congresswoman Gladys Gonzalez - who describes herself as the new leader of SOMU since the government takeover. Argentinian President Mauricio Macri has embarked on an ideologically driven campaign of mass redundancies in both the public and private sectors since his election late last year. SOMU leader Enrique Omar Suarez was close to left-wing former president Cristina Kirchner. From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-65e2-Argentina-Seafarers-hit-back-at-st ate-control-bid#.V4CTtfl9600 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13774 (20160708) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/000c01d1d9b2%24a02db090%24e08911b0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
