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An Auto Bailout?
Latest News - Auto Workers Call for Rally at Auto Show Jan 11
December 9 - Auto Worker Caravan Shakes up Capitol Hill
December 4 - Detroit News Editorial - Cutting Auto Wages Won't Solve Big 3 Crisis.
November 21 - Abandoning autoworkers and their communities is not the answer.
November 13 - Listen to Mark Brenner on AM talk radio, Portland's KPOJ, discussing the auto industry bailout.
November 12 - Labor Notes' Mark Brenner tackles the auto industry bailout on Democracy Now!
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New Death Threat to Mexican Mine Leader
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The Mexican miners union continues to strike at the Cananea mine for safe working conditions and the reinstatement of their leader, who faces fresh criminal charges and a new death threat.
The Mexican government tried to oust the miners’ president, Napoleon Gomez Urrutia, and he was forced to flee the country after facing death threats and corruption charges. Gomez said they were trumped up; false charges are often leveled against union activists in Mexico.
Gomez won re-election and continues to lead his union in exile from Vancouver, British Columbia. The Mexican government, however, refuses to recognize him as the union’s head.
The Steelworkers (USW) began a new campaign this fall to help the Mineros, pushing USW locals to adopt the family of one of the 1,200 striking workers who have been out of work since July 2007. Their conflict with the Mexican government has led to the death of two union members at the hands of the police, and as much as $1.3 billion in production losses for the multinational Grupo Mexico, which runs mines on both sides of the border.
Join the USW in supporting the striking miners and their union leader. Letters of protest can be sent to the Mexican Secretary of Labor Javier Lozano Alarcon, Secretaria del Trabajo y Prevision Social, Periferico Sur No. 4271, Col. Fuentes del Pedregal, Delegacion Tlalpan, Mexico, D.F., C.P. 14149. Emails of protest can be sent to .