Apoyo al SME del

November 29, 2011 Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa President of Mexico Dr. Alejandro Poiré Romero Secretary of Government Via email: [email protected] [email protected] Dear President Calderón and Secretary Poiré We are writing to you on behalf of the tens of thousands of U.S. workers who are members of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) to express our concern about the status of negotiations with SME. We have been monitoring this situation closely and are aware that on September 13 your administration agreed to recognize the democratically elected leadership of SME, unfreeze the union’s assets, and sit down with the union to negotiate the reinstatement of some 16,000 fired workers. While we were encouraged to see that the toma de nota was approved, we are deeply troubled that – although November 30 is fast approaching – the union still has no access to its funds, that twelve union leaders remain in jail, and that there appears to have been little progress regarding the re-employment of the thousands of union members who refused to accept severance. We urge you to take immediate steps to ensure: • prompt implementation of a fully budgeted solution for decent jobs in the electrical sector (or early retirement options) for all 16,599 workers who have not accepted severance; • immediate release of all 12 prisoners; • immediate access to the 21 million pesos belonging to SME that remain frozen; • full trade union freedoms and collective bargaining rights for all those who are reinstated to decent jobs.

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November 29, 2011

Felipe de Jesús Calderón HinojosaPresident of Mexico

Dr. Alejandro Poiré RomeroSecretary of Government

Via email: [email protected]@segob.gob.mx

Dear President Calderón and Secretary Poiré

We are writing to you on behalf of the tens of thousands of U.S. workers who are members ofthe United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) to express our concernabout the status of negotiations with SME.

We have been monitoring this situation closely and are aware that on September 13 youradministration agreed to recognize the democratically elected leadership of SME, unfreeze theunion’s assets, and sit down with the union to negotiate the reinstatement of some 16,000 firedworkers.

While we were encouraged to see that the toma de nota was approved, we are deeply troubledthat – although November 30 is fast approaching – the union still has no access to its funds, thattwelve union leaders remain in jail, and that there appears to have been little progress regardingthe re-employment of the thousands of union members who refused to accept severance.

We urge you to take immediate steps to ensure:

• prompt implementation of a fully budgeted solution for decent jobs in the electrical sector(or early retirement options) for all 16,599 workers who have not accepted severance;

• immediate release of all 12 prisoners;• immediate access to the 21 million pesos belonging to SME that remain frozen;• full trade union freedoms and collective bargaining rights for all those who are reinstated

to decent jobs.

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