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Last summer, Delphi’s Reynosa, Mexico plant fired 250 workers for failing to purchase expensive safety shoes. Workers say that the shoes were a pretext, that Delphi was cutting production and wanted an excuse to cut its workforce. Auto parts maker Delphi, famous for slashing workers’ wages in the United States, is among the largest private employers in Mexico.

Since last summer’s Reynosa firings, Delphi has refused to pay the workers the severance pay they are entitled to by law. Many of them are single mothers. To add insult to injury, on April 27 the local labor board informed workers that their paperwork had “disappeared.”

On May 1, a spirited group of workers demonstrated in front of the board and then marched to join hundreds of other workers demanding an end to “protection unionism,” where the union contract protects only the employer.

Miraculously, the vanished paperwork suddenly reappeared. But the Delphi workers need pressure to get their case heard and their severance paid. Please write to the head of their union,

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, Secretario General and ask him to press the Junta de Conciliación y Arbitraje to do its job and protect workers’ rights. Also, write to the

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with a similar message. Send a copy of your letter to the
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Expiration Date:
Sat, 06/30/2007 - 11:59pm