Mexico’s Labor Board Responds to Complaints from Squid Workers’ Supporters
February 11, 2008 - Thanks to the emails that you all have been sending in support of the squid workers in Santa Rosalia, at last the Mexican government is paying attention.
In Mexico there is a sub-office of the Federal Labor Board (la Junta Federal de Conciliación y Arbitraje) that is in charge of reviewing the work of public employees. Because of the huge number of emails that we sent, denouncing the work of the head of the Labor Board in Baja California Sur for her mismanagement of the case of the fired Hanjin Mexico workers, the sub-office took the emails as a signal that the situation required a formal complaint.
The sub-office selected some of the people who had sent emails and then sent these people a letter as a response, informing them that they can file a formal complaint against the Labor Board staff person in charge of the case of the Hanjin Mexico workers, but they had to do so within 5 working days.