Mexicans protest redundancies - 12 Nov 09

Thousands of sacked workers have taken to the streets of Mexico City to demand their jobs back.

More than 40,000 employees were fired in October when the government closed a regional electricity firm.

Some critics claim it was an attempt by Felipe Calderon, the Mexican president, to limit the workers unions. But he says the company was inefficient.

Franc Contreras reports.

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[enasmuthaffar]

the current capitalistic crisis is hitting hard the working class throughout the world...oppression and injustice continue to multiply.

[IwasaBushfan]

wonder why we didnt hear of this in america..did any americans see this on any news?

[350ztech]

Cause and effect, this will lead to desperation, which will fuel the cartels numbers, which will sooner or later spill over onto u.s soil, which will lead to an invasion by us soldiers. Then the u.s will be in another war it cant win because of its humane laws against enemy combatants and scrutiny from the world wide media. We should have kept the Mexican capital and its lands hundreds of years ago, the u.s would not have this problem its facing now with these leeches spilling over.

[234566tgvb]

Redundancies usally means more redundancies and so on. Get rid of so many thousands of people out of work, then the people their customers to lose the income they would bring to them. This means they lose money and have to cut back, meaning the places they would be customers to will lose out and so on and so on. Until the loop finally comes back to you and you enter in to a spiral downwards and we finally end up in ressession or a depression :/.

[TheChicahuaAchcauhtI]

Yeah, we all want these people to come over-run our cities. Just think we can give these people what they want, and they can help us make the entire United States like L.A. and Miami! It would be so convenient to buy drugs on any street corner or school playground. It would be so nice to be able to find a prostitute in front of our churches. It would be great to know that our cities restaurants were unhindered by silly health and sanitation codes, and that city officials could be bought and sold

[Cronker58]

It 40 thousand jobs lost out of the 125,000 job created in october (from what I heard)

[armistices]

I feel sorry for Mexicans, it seems as if their government will never get its shit together.

[xllGustavollx]

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