Strengthening Tornel Workers’ Strike Fund, Promoting Work Stoppages & Coordinating Solidarity are Urgent Tasks
With four workers shot and an intransigent employer, the union needs widespread solidarity.
With four workers shot and an intransigent employer, the union needs widespread solidarity.
The union stressed the urgency of addressing the conflict since, in addition to fearing further attacks, more than 2,000 families & over 20,000 indirect jobs are affected by the company’s intransigence.
The US-based autoworkers union called for immediate protection for Tornel workers and their families, as well as a public condemnation of the attack by Mexican authorities and industry leaders.
On March 18, striking workers on the picket line at a Tornel Rubber plant were attacked by an armed shock group of over sixty men. Four workers were shot.
The tire plant workers unease stems from an attack they suffered early Wednesday morning, when armed men shot and wounded four employees on the picket-line.