Labor tour to unite people in all the Americas

Wisconsin private and public sector workers in the tens of thousands thrust their fight against a union-busting law onto front-page news. More than two years ago, the members of Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (Mexican Electrical Workers Union) were robbed of their collective bargaining rights. Their union was declared illegal.

The pro-big-business Mexican government forced 44,000 workers out of their jobs at the country’s second largest electrical power distributor, Luz y Fuerza (Central Light and Power). This jeopardized not only the workers’ income, but also that of pensioners.

Find out how their struggle is like the one in the U.S. Hear from the workers on the front lines in Mexico and from a Cuban representative of the World Federation of Trade Unions who will present some of the alternatives already in process in the Americas.

An injury to one is an injury to all. There are no borders in the workers’ struggle against capitalism. Come out to learn about our common interests and struggles and the need for mutual solidarity.

Gilda Chacon Bravo, Federacion Sindical Mundial-Americas, Cuba

Humberto Montes de Oca, Interior Secretary, Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (Mexican Electrical Workers Union)

Pipino Cuevas, Secretary of Health and Social Welfare, Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (Mexican Electrical Workers Union)

Jorge Cazares, Representing Section VIII of the National Steering Committee of Education Workers (CNTE — Mexico) (visa denied by the United States)