When: Wednesday July 8, 2009

Time: 12pm- 1pm

Location: ASSI Market
3525 W 8th St Los Angeles, CA 90005
*Picket on Oxford St. entrance

On Wednesday July 8th Seafood Workers in Santa Rosalia will be organizing an action against the maquiladora Hanjin.  In Los Angeles, we will be having a picket against Korean grocery stores who continue to sell products distributed by Hanjin.

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We have posted photos taken of maquiladora products sold through grocery stores in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. Hanjin USA Trading Co, owner of the squid maquiladora in Santa Rosalia, distributes a wide range of cookies, snacks, chips, rice, beans, dried seafood, and other products for various Korean Companies. Please follow this link to see pictures of these products.  The boycott will continue until the Labor Conflict in Santa Rosalia comes to a just resolution.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/enlaceintl/sets/72157619961603614/

Posted May 19, 2009

URGENT
Dear Sisters and Brothers

The Independent Union of Workers in the Maquila Industry (SINTTIM) and the seafood workers in Santa Rosalia need your support.  Please send letters to the government officials of Baja California Sur.

Enlace staff, Mary Mendez and Daniel Carrillo, visited La Paz and Santa Rosalía, Baja California Sur, in late March.  The purpose of the visit with SINTTIM (the Independent Union of Maquila Workers) and CISSLABORAL (the Center for Social, Union, and Labor Research) was to evaluate the Seafood Workers Justice Campaign, analyze current state of organizing, create a bi-national plan, and provide workers with workshops on Enlace’s organizing frameworks. In La Paz the meetings were a success because we planned out the fight for the remaining of the year.

CISSLABORAL and SINTTIM have submitted a complaint with the International Labor Organization (ILO). The complaint is only available in spanish at the following website: http://lacasadeltrabajador.blogspot.com/2009/05/cisslaboral-y-sinttim-presentan-queja.html

Posted March 18, 2009

Dear Sisters and Brothers

We write to you to inform you about the Labor Hearing of the Seafood Workers on February 26th in the city of La Paz and also ask that you participate in an Action to support the workers.

Here are the costs associated with the Seafood Worker Justice Fight, thank you all for your support

SFWJ_Costs_08-09.xls

posted March 12, 2009

Follow the link to an article posted on the AFL-CIO Blog

posted February 3, 2009

Los Angeles—Our January 30, 2009, action was a huge success!  Rosa Ceseña Ramirez, Secretary General of SINTTIM, Enlace staff and many supporters converged at City Market in Koreatown to demand that the store stop selling Hanjin Trading USA Co. products until the company settles the claims of workers who were illegally fired for organizing a union at Hanjin’s Seafood Maquiladora located in Santa Rosalia, Mexico.  After only picketing about 15 minutes, the general manager of the store came out and agreed to our demand.  Not only would he stop selling Hanjin Trading products at that store location, but also at the other three markets that he manages.
  The day before the action, another major Korean ethnic market agreed to stop selling Hanjin products as well!
  Thank you to the individual community members and to the allies from the following groups who came out and contributed to our quick victory on Jan. 30:
•  Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance (KIWA), which helped us to organize the action and to contact Korean ethnic press
•  AFL-CIO
•  IDEPSCA
•  El FAT
•  SEDEPAC
•  ProDESC
•  Comité Fronterizo de Obreros
•  Centro de Apoyo al Trabajador (CAT)
•  Association for Intervention and Innovation in the Social Sciences, A.C., (AIISSAC)
•  SEIU 721
•  Korean Democratic Labor Party
•  Frente Indígena Oaxaqueño Binacional (FIOB)
•  Chinese Progressive Association
•  Cure CVS Now
•  Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council
•  Pomona College

For pictures of the action, courtesy of Ben Davis of the AFL-CIO, go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/enlaceintl/.

posted January 23, 2009

Read the letter that was sent January 22, 2009 to Asian Markets in Los Angeles asking them to cease business with Hanjin

posted December 10, 2008

Please click hear to listen. This interview was conducted in July 2008 with a leader from the fight, Tito, and Enlace staff, Mary, who speak about the origins of the campaign and the latest developments.

posted November 12, 2008

Much happened in these last 3 months, here are a few highlights.

Full time organizers in Santa Rosalia:
Thanks to the economic support of many of you, we raised enough for 2 full time organizers for 6 months in Santa Rosalía; Rosa Ceseña and Cecilia Verdugo are now organizing full time with pay in the campaign. 

Hear the stories of the Seafood Workers and their Fight for Justice

posted August 5, 2008

Thank you to all the groups that made July 31 a successful international day of action!

Mexico—Groups in Mexico City, La Paz, and Santa Rosalía successfully led delegations.  In Santa Rosalía a group of 15 workers, led by Rosa Ceseña Ramirez, the Secretary General of SINTTIM, arrived at the Offices of the Municipal President, José Manuel Murillo, but Mr. Murillo nor any staff person was willing to receive them, but the delegation insisted that they be heard and presented their letter.  Soon a letter will be sent to protest the lack of respect shown by the Municipal President and his staff.

(Front Page Story on Action from Baja California Sur Newspaper)