Victory for workers! Agreement reached at Johnson Controls in Mexico

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.imfmetal.org/index.cfm?c=23862&l=2

IMF welcomes new agreement between Johnson Controls and the Mexican Miners' Union ensuring the reinstatement of workers beaten and forced to resign on August 16 and the August 27 deadline to formally rescind the protection contract with COS and recognize the Mexican Miners' Union.

MEXICO: The Mexican Miners' Union (SNTMMSRM) and local management reached an agreement on August 20, following violent attacks of union leaders and members at a Johnson Controls Interiors plant (Resurrección) in Puebla, Mexico which led to a four day protest strike and workers picketing outside the plant.

The agreement seeks to resolve the situation at the plant which resulted in unknown persons being given access to the Johnson Controls plant after midnight on August 16 threatening workers on the first shift and assaulting them with sticks and stones, leaving many injured.

Two of the members of the Executive Committee of the newly formed Section 308 of IMF-affiliated the Mexican Miners' Union (SNTMMSRM), Cándido Barreucos and Vigilio Melendez, were beaten in a company office and were forced to sign letters of resignation under gunpoint.

The agreement reached on August 20 offers reinstatement to the two workers who were forced to resign, compensation to six workers who were injured and the company promises to examine the case of two of the local Johnson Controls supervisors who were present during the beating up of the two union leaders.

The Mexican Miners' Union believes that the assailants were associated with the company-controlled "protection" union (the Confederacion de Organizaciones Sindicales, or COS) the union that was ejected after a three day strike by the workers in May of this year.

FULL story at link.