Sept. 5, ‘07 Campaign Update

Since our successful speaking tour for the campaign in March, SINTTIM and the workers have been able to make some advances in the cases of the 92 fired Hanjin Mexico workers whose cases still have not been resolved.  After SINTTIM’s press conference about the tour in March, the government authorities told SINTTIM that they are now working on the cases.

Despite this, nothing happened for more than two months.  SINTTIM and Enlace therefore planned a day of action for June 11.  Enlace sent out an action alert asking supporters to call Mexico’s tourism offices in the U.S. since both the Mexican and the Baja California Sur governments depend on tourism.  On the same day, SINTTIM led a delegation to the offices of the federal labor board (la Junta Federal de Conciliación y Arbitraje) to protest the delay of the labor process and to demand a set date for an official hearing.  The delegation was able to talk with the president of the board.  The following week she gave the workers a hearing date of January 8, 2008, in order to have sufficient time to give notice to Hanjin’s parent companies in Korea and the U.S.