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Call Delphi and tell them that they cannot take the machinery and violate workers rights with impunity.
After the workers came back from Cd. Victoria where they met with Santiago Saldivar Caballero, who recognized the Workers Coalition for Justice and the Defense of Labor Rights, the workers began to inform their fellow workers in Reynosa about the results of their trip by leafleting everywhere in the factories (the lunch rooms, locker rooms, bathrooms, everywhere). [See Flyer] When the workers arrived in other plants, supervisors, engineers and guards were waiting for them, intimidating them and forbidding them to pass around their leaflets to the rest of their co-workers. The workers confronted this intimidation and argued that they were exercising their constitutional rights and that they were in a public place. Management told them they could not leaflet because they were in private property and called the police. The workers exercised their rights as workers and as citizens with all the protections from the Mexican constitution and the Mexican Federal Labor Law. After an intense discussion, the workers continued leafleting. When the rest of the workers learned that Delphi’s attorney Alberto Peña Perez had told the General Director of the STPS in Victoria that Delphi would close its plants to move to China, workers from all of the plants began to join in and to organize.
As chance would have it, the New York Times published on November 21 an article stating that Delphi would consolidate its plants and cut 9000 jobs in Europe and the US and move them to China, Mexico and other places with lower costs. It is obvious that Delphi is “consolidating” its plants, but any actions it wants to take must respect workers rights.
Seeing that the workers were organizing and demanding their rights, the company management from Delnosa (Delphi) in Reynosa summoned the workers to a meeting yesterday and told the workers that the company was to dismantle the machinery during the Christmas holidays and all the buildings would be emptied leaving the workers without a place to work. The workers were told that when they came back to work after the holidays that they have to report to plants 5 and 6 or resign if they do not agree to do so.
The Conciliation and Arbitration Board closed today for the holidays and will reopen the first week of January. The workers are organizing themselves to guard the machinery and try to stop Delphi from taking everything without paying the workers severances. The workers also fear the possible repression that may take place when they try to stop Delphi from removing the machinery.
Call or write to the Delphi CEO and tell him that we and the workers will be watching them so they do not take the machinery during the holidays until Delphi has paid the workers their full severances under article 439 of the Mexican Federal Labor Law with 120 days wages.
J.T. Battenberg III, CEO and Chairman of the Board Delphi World and North American Headquarters Or don't miss: Delphi Ethics Line at 1-888-679-8848. Or Maurice Rodriguez Maurice.j.rodriguez@delphi.com Lee Ann Smith lee.ann.a.smith@dephi.com ***
Sample Setter for Delphi CEO
J.T. Battenberg III CEO and Chairman of the Board of Delphi 5725 Delphi Drive Dear Mr. Battenberg:
The Delphi workers have informed us that when they came back to Reynosa after meeting with Mr. Santiago Salvidar Caballero from the government office in Ciudad Victoria, the local company management did not follow the instructions of Mr. Saldivar Caballero of paying the workers their full severances according to article 439 of the Mexican Federal Law with 120 days wages. Instead, management told the workers that they will remove the machinery from plants 3 and 4 during the Christmas holidays and that when they came back to work that they should report to plants 5 and 6 because buildings 3 and 4 would be empty. They were further told that if they did not agree with that to go ahead and resign.
The workers are determined to stop the removal of the machinery without getting their full severance payments. We strongly urge Delphi’s business and ethical practices to act responsibly by paying the workers their full severances and stop the local management from using any violence and suppressing them.
At this time of peace and harmony, Delphi must respond in a socially responsible way with all its workers and pay their severances with 120 days wages as established in article 439 of the Mexican Federal Law so that justice and peace can prevail.
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Governor Tomas Yarrington,
We write to you because your government is aware of the situation of the Delphi workers in Reynosa. The workers met with you seeking justice regarding their labor rights because the legal representative of Delphi told the General Director of the STPS that Delphi that it was closing its plants to move to China. The workers are making an appeal during your last days in office so that Delphi respects their rights as established in the Mexican Federal Labor Law to be paid their severances according to article 439 with 120 days wages.
Delphi has told the workers that during the Christmas holidays that the company would dismantle the machinery and empty the buildings. The workers are determined to guard them and prevent the removal of the machinery.
We call on you so that your term in office does not end in violence but with justice and that the workers be paid their full severances according to article 439 of the Mexican Federal Labor Law.
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Lic.Alfredo Garcia Puente Secretaria de Treabaja y Previcion Social 01834-31-6155 /31-65245/31-67499 SGDGTYPS@TAMAULIPAS .GOB.MX
Presidente Vicente Fox Quezada: Presidente de la República
Dear President Fox,
The Delphi management in Reynosa has announced to the workers that it was going to dismantle the machinery in plants 3 and 4 while the plants are closed for the Christmas Holidays. The workers are determined to stop the company and prevent the removal of the machinery at all costs without getting paid their full severances according to article 439 of the Mexican Federal Labor Law with 120 days wages before Delphi closes the plants permanently.
You had committed yourself to respect Human Rights, however, it does not make sense to preach respect for human rights on the one hand, and to promote the violation of the maquila workers labor rights on the other by allowing multinationals to behave with impunity.
We demand that you intervene so that the workers can have justice regarding their labor rights.
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