North American Unions Support Striking Peruvian Miners
North American Unions Support Striking Peruvian Miners
LIMA, May 19 (BERNAMA-NNN-EFE)-- Unions in the United States, Mexico and Canada offered support on Monday for Peruvian miners who have launched a strike to protest outsourcing and moves to slash pay and benefits.
North American unions condemn "the abuses committed against Peruvian workers by the government of Peru and the multinational companies," Jorge Garcia-Orgales, a representative of the Canada branch of the United Steelworkers, told a press conference in Lima.
The session with the media took place at the headquarters of the FNTMMSP labor federation, representing some 70,000 Peruvian miners and metalworkers, which announced the strike earlier on Monday.
Garcia-Orgales read a statement of solidarity signed by USW International President Leo W. Gerard and by Napoleon Gomez Urrutia, chief of Mexico's SNTMMSSRM miners and metalworkers union.
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