19983: (Arthur) Act now to stop union-busting and demand respect for workers (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Tttnhm@aol.com

Act NOW!
Haiti: Stop union-busting, respect workers' rights!

On Monday 1 March, 2004, thirty-four (34) members of the Sendika Ouvriye
Kodevi Wanament (SOKOWA, Ouanaminthe Codevi Workers' Union) were fired by the
management of the Grupo M textile assembly factory in northeast Haiti. (This union
had filed its official registration with the Ministry of Social Affairs and
Labour in Port-au-Prince on 10 February, 2004.) The following day, as
co-workers prepared to take action in support of the union, members of the so-called
"rebel" forces, who in recent days staged a violent coup d'etat against the
Haitian government, arrived at the factory and attacked the workers. After several
workers were handcuffed and others beaten up, the workforce was compelled to
resume work. The "rebels" said they had been called in by the Grupo M factory
management.

Please go to
http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=24
where you will find an urgent action appeal directed to Fernando Capellan,
the CEO of Grupo M, in Matanzas, Santiago, Dominican Republic, with copies to
Levi Strauss and the Haiti Support Group.

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Solidarity with the Haitian people's struggle for justice, participatory
democracy and equitable development, since 1992.
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