"Large Mexican corporations, which benefited from the privatizations and are strong supporters of the current government, also want Gomez out. In wage negotiations, Gomez demands that workers get a bigger share of currently record-level copper prices."
New America Media, Commentary/Analysis, David Bacon, Jun 09, 2006
Editor's Note: Mexican President Vicente Fox's refusal to recognize the leader of the country's miners' union has sparked strikes and demonstrations across Mexico. David Bacon is an associate editor at New America Media and author of "The Children of NAFTA" (University of California Press, 2004).
CANANEA, Mexico - This month Mexico celebrated the 100th anniversary of the battle that started its revolution a century ago - the uprising in Cananea. In this tiny town, just 50 miles south of the Arizona border, Mexican miners organized an insurrection, meant to topple not just Colonel Greene, the U.S. owner of what was even then one of the world's largest copper mines, but the Mexican government itself.
Today, miners in Cananea are again on strike, having stopped the mine on the anniversary date, June 1. But they still refuse to go back to work. Miners here joined their coworkers in Nacozari, another Sonoran mining town not far away, who have been on strike for over two months. Other miners and steel workers throughout Mexico are also refusing to work.
Full story: http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=2e6261389a6ee41ad46abbd40328f2b9
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