Mexico Days Of Action - Toronto - February 14, 2011 - PART 2

Launch of the Mexico Days Of Action in Toronto on February 14, 2011 outside the Mexican Consulate at 199Bay Street - Part 2
After Charlie Campbell, Research Director, United Steelworkers Canadian National Office, the speakers were:
Barb Dolan, Ontario Region Administrative Vice President of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada;
Terry Downey, Executive Vice President of the Ontario Federation of Labour;
Robert White, President of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 353;
John Cartwright, President of the Toronto and York Region Labour Council;
followed by a round of applause for the special guest "The Bay Street Pig"
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Some photos are here on this FaceBook event:
Support for the Valentine's Day on Bay Street / Mexican Workers' Rights Day
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=202549529760274
CEP is joining trade unions across Canada and around the world in actions calling for trade union rights in Mexico.

Over the last five years, there has been a serious escalation in the systematic and brazen violation of the rights of Mexican workers. Mexican workers seeking to join or form independent democratic trade unions not only face the threats and intimidation of their employers, they face hired thugs (in the workplace and at government hearings), biased law enforcement, federal security forces occupying their work places, attacks on union leaders as well as illegal and unconstitutional government resolutions to annul freedom of association.

These violations of the right to freedom of association by the Mexican government must stop!

The international trade union movement is holding various actions including rallies, meetings with Mexican ambassadors, and letter and mass email communication in at least 30 countries around the world from February 14 to 19, 2011. The date coincides with the fifth anniversary of the deaths of 65 miners at the Pasta de Conchos mine disaster in Mexico on February 19, 2006.

Events in Canada include meetings and rallies at Mexican Embassy and Consular offices.

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