CJM y trabajadores de la maquiladora presentan queja ante la OIT

Febrero 2010

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Presentada en la OIT una segunda queja sobre los contratos de protección mexicanos

En febrero de 2010 se presentó una segunda queja ante el Comité de Libertad Sindical de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) sobre el uso de contratos de protección en México, tras una queja similar presentada anteriormente por la Federación Internacional de Trabajadores de las Industrias Metalúrgicas.

GINEBRA/MEXICO: El 22 de febrero de 2010, el Sindicato de Trabajadores de Teléfonos de México, la Coalición pro Justicia en las Maquiladoras (CJM,) la Asociación Nacional de Abogados Democráticos (ANAD) y organizaciones laborales, sindicatos y otras organizaciones aliadas miembros de la CJM presentaron una queja al Comité de Libertad Sindical de la OIT sobre las violaciones del derecho de los trabajadores de las maquiladoras mexicanas a la libertad sindical y la negociación colectiva.

La queja demuestra una práctica persistente y sistemática de violaciones de los derechos a la libertad sindical y la negociación colectiva, conforme se establecen en la Constitución mexicana, la Ley Federal del Trabajo y los Convenios Internacionales núms. 87 y 98 de la OIT, como se muestra en los siguientes casos: Sony, Han Young (Hyundai), Custom Trim (GM, Ford; Chrysler), DURO (GAP), LAJAT (Levi's), y KSS (GM, Ford; Chrysler).

Según la CJM, la finalidad de presentar la queja es denunciar y corregir las violaciones de los derechos de los trabajadores por las empresas multinacionales y el Gobierno mexicano, que protege a sindicatos favorables a la dirección mediante “contratos de protección”.

Anteriormente, en febrero de 2009, la FITIM también presentó una queja contra el Gobierno mexicano pidiendo a la OIT que condenara las leyes mexicanas que impiden la libertad sindical y contravienen el Convenio núm. 87 de la OIT, que garantiza las normas fundamentales del trabajo a todos los trabajadores.

El Caso No. 2694 de la OIT se refiere a la inmensa mayoría de los convenios colectivos en virtud de la legislación mexicana que se denominan “contratos de protección”, y obligan a los trabajadores a unirse a sindicatos designados por la dirección de las compañías en vez de a uno de su propia elección.

Otra queja sobre México, el Caso No. 2478, presentada también por la FITIM, se refiere a la interferencia del Gobierno en la autonomía de su afiliado el Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores Mineros, Metalúrgicos y Similares de la República Mexicana (SNTMMSRM).

La FITIM continúa apoyando a los trabajadores cuyos derechos se niegan en México y seguirá de cerca los progresos sobre estas quejas presentadas a la OIT, e informará al respecto.Mar 15, 2010 – Anita Gardner

CJM Annual Report 2010

Dear CJM members, partners and allies,

Please find in the following link the CJM's Annual Report 2010 in a magazine format.

http://coalitionforjusticecjm.blogspot.com/

Happy Holidays from CJM staff.

Trabajadores/as de la Maquila Protestan ante la Organización Mundial del Trabajo

COALITION FOR JUSTICE IN THE MAQUILADORAS
INTERNATIONAL COMPLAINT
PRESS RELEASE

Contact Person: Martha Ojeda
CJM Executive Director (210) 240-1084 February 26, 2010

The Telephone Workers’ Union of Mexico, The Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras (CJM,) the Democratic Lawyers Association (ANAD), and the labor organizations, unions, and other allied organizations who are CJM members on February 22nd presented a complaint to the Freedom of Association Committee of the International Labor Organization (ILO) meeting in Mexico City. (Please see the link OIT ).

The complaint focuses on violations of Mexican maquiladora workers’ right to freedom of association and collective bargaining. CJM, maquiladora workers, and CJM member organizations compiled the evidence in the complaint from cases in the maquiladora industry located on the northern border of Mexico. The cases date from 1994, the year the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect.

The complaint demonstrates a persistent and systematic pattern of violations to the rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining as established in the Mexican Constitution, the Federal Labor Law, and International Conventions 87 and 98 of the International Labor Organization (ILO) as exemplified in the following cases: Sony, Han Young (Hyundai), Custom Trim (GM, Ford & Chrysler), DURO (GAP), LAJAT (Levi’s), y KSS (GM, Ford & Chrysler).

The purpose of presenting the complaint is to denounce and redress violations of workers’ rights by multinational corporations and the Mexican government,, which protects management-friendly “ghost” unions and supports bargaining practices that fail to hold companies accountable. The complaint will provide an opportunity for maquiladora workers to secure enforcement of their rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining, rights that have been eroded within the context of neoliberal economic and political policies.

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Neoliberal policies over the past several decades have promoted economic integration at the regional levels by implementing free trade agreements like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), signed by the US, Mexico, and Canada, as the alternative to national and sustainable development for developing countries.

The neoliberal economic model imposed a new labor culture of “flexibility” in labor relationships that has undermined workers’ rights. Like many other developing countries, Mexico was eager to join the global economy and pay the price of complicity with the interests of multinational corporations: a cheap labor force and ghost unions that offer foreign investors protection contracts.

Located on the northern border of Mexico, in close proximity to US consumer markets, the maquiladoras typically sign collective bargaining contracts with ghost unions even before the multinational corporation has begun operations there. The ghost unions agree to protect the company, and exist only on paper because they are not elected by the workers. As result, the workers are not informed that they have a union or collective bargaining rights. Once the workers (most of whom are women) organize themselves to improve their salaries and worker conditions, they face harassment, repression, and arrest by corporations, ghost unions, and the government. Workers who speak out to defend their rights are labeled as trouble makers and may be blacklisted by the company. Blacklisting is a violation of workers’ right to work, to freely associate, and to collectively bargain to improve their work conditions, as established in the Mexican Constitution, the Mexican Labor Law, and Conventions 87 and 98 of the ILO signed by Mexican government.

Although the Freedom of Association Committee of the International Labor Organization (ILO) is taking place in Mexico at this time, y the Mexican government has refused to ratify ILO Convention 98.

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The Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras (CJM) is an international, non-profit, non-governmental coalition composed of organizations from Mexico, the United States, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Haiti, Dominican Republic and other countries strategically linked to the maquiladora industry in Mexico, ; of religious, labor, environmental, community, women and pro- immigrant groups and other sectors that share the objectives of the Coalition. We strive, in a coordinated and multi-disciplinary way, for a better quality of life, sustainable development, human rights, and for economic and environmental justice.

Our core efforts are to improve working conditions and living standards for workers in the maquiladora industry and in their communities. We place special emphasis on defending the rights of women in the maquiladoras who suffer discrimination, humiliation, and sexual harassment. CJM supports workers’ struggles on the shop floor and in the community.

Our actions are carried out wherever maquiladora companies and multinational corporations violate workers’ rights or impact negatively the right of communities to protect and safeguard their environment, culture, and traditions.