The
United Steelworkers (USW) welcomes the return to Mexico of Napoleón Gómez
Urrutia, the President and General Secretary of the National Union of Mine,
Metal, Steel and Related Workers of the Mexican Republic (Los Mineros) after
more than 12 years of exile.
In a
letter of congratulations, USW International President Leo W. Gerard said:
“With
your swearing-in to the Senate, a new world of possibilities begins for Los
Mineros and the working class of Mexico. For the first time in decades, there
is a real opportunity to transform the structures of worker representation,
industrial justice and economic decision-making to make democratic
representation, real collective bargaining, decent wages and pro-worker
policies available to Mexican workers. This transformation would benefit not
only workers in Mexico, but also their sisters and brothers in Canada and the
United States who have suffered the unfair competition resulting from wage
suppression in Mexico.”