++ Tens of thousands of activists took part in the march called by the Mexican Electricians Union, the SME, from the Angel of Independence Monument to the Zócalo… The protest march blocked traffic on Reforma Avenue…
++ Daylong protests by SME dismissed workers and sympathizers left a toll of three policemen hurt, as well as several reporters and photographers who were beaten… Police arrested 10 activists.
++ Speaking at the Zocalo rally the head of UNAM workers union, the STUNAM, Agustín Rodríguez, called for a national strike to back the electricians union.
++ SME leader Martín Esparza Flores, called for a new social pact in which the people can once again recover power.
++ There were protests, marches and demonstrations in other parts of Mexico as well such as Colima, Morelos, Puebla, Oaxaca, Guerrero, Michoacán, Veracruz, Chiapas, and Quintana Roo, where telephone workers, dissident teachers and members of social organizations and unions used the occasion to also protest over the fiscal package and President Calderón’s economic policies.
++ President Calderón said that in the month since power utility Luz y Fuerza was shut down the Federal Electricity Commission has guaranteed quality power supply.
++ The Supreme Court threw out a request by SME leader Martín Esparza Flores to create a committee to investigate possible human rights violations in the shutting down of Luz y Fuerza… Earlier, the court had thrown out a constitutional controversy complaint filed by the Federal District Assembly challenging the presidential decree that closed down the power utility.
++ The State of Mexico Attorney General’s Office confirmed that two of the five alleged kidnappers detained by Juchitepec residents because of involvement in a kidnapping, are federal police officers.
++ Authorities said that over the last week more A H1N1 influenza cases were reported than in April and May, when schools and restaurants and other venues were closed down in several parts of the country including Mexico City.
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And to think that unions were once a positive element in society.
Why isn't the world hearing about this modern day dictatorship going on in Mexico? Why is the only news heard about the great deed the president did and not about the 50,000 workers left without work (and this was the only union that had decent laws for its workers like no overtime without pay)? It is amazing and totally incomprehensible that this could happen. Shame on this president and shame on the news media that doesn't report the truth and doesn't let the world know about this!!
Tell anon (aren´t these folks always anonymous?) this: I live part-time in Mexico City and most of the time in Pátzcuaro, Michoacán. In Pátzcuaro, the Comision Federal de Electricidad delivers the light, as (as I understand it) it does in most of Mexico.
The CFE is a well-organized entity. Setting up an account and paying it is high-tech and smooth. And service throughout the year is flawless.
The union gang that delivers our light in DF is stuck in the past. Dealing with your account there is a matter of not simply physically going to a gang office and waiting in interminable lines, you must go to the specific gang office where you opened your account way back when, even if there is one down the block from where you work, which would be far easier to visit.
And most everything is done by hand and on typewriters like it was done in 1940. Freaking amazing!
Since I live in DF only a small part of the year, I am not personally (thank God) acquainted with all the other elements of lousy service I hear of.
Mexico City will love the CFE. It´s great our President Calderón is doing this modernization of the electric service.
And it´s great he´s taking on yet another hidebound, corrupt union that pretends to help its members but really just lines the pockets of the union bosses while delivering colossally bad service to customers.
I love Calderón. Wish I could vote for him again.
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