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“Last Saturday night, October 10, several thousand Mexican government agents and police stormed into the headquarters and a hundred substations of the publicly owned electric utility, Luz Y Fuerza. They fired the workers, replacing them on the spot with workers brought in from another utility. On orders from Mexican President Felipe Calderón, they disbanded the company and thereby abolished its union. The government claimed that it acted because the company — run by the government’s own appointees — was “inefficient.” This was an attack on one of Mexico’s strongest unions.”
Jeff Faux of the Economic Policy Institute examines the implications of these developments at Huffington Post and asks why the Obama adminstration is shrugging.
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[…] livelihoods at Luz y Fuerte Central power company after the Felipe Calderon’s government disbanded the company and fired 44,000 union workers last year. Over 90% of the economy of the town was lost. The SME, Mexican electrical workers union, has […]