Workers at Bombardier in Mexico held a rally
to save a Bombardier train facility in the UK organized by
Unite.
Around a hundred members of the National Union
of Mine, Metal, Steel and Allied Workers of the Mexican Republic
(SNTMMSSRM) employed at Bombardier in Ciudad Sahagún, Mexico, held
a rally on July 23 in support of the Unite members at Bombardier in
Derby.
The event was organized to coincide with a
march and rally organized by Unite in Derby on the same day.
SNTMMSSRM – known as Los Mineros – has a
Strategic Alliance with the United Steelworkers (USW), Unite’s
partner in Workers Uniting.
The campaign aims to reverse the UK Tory-led
government’s decision to exclude Bombardier UK from a contract to
build new train carriages.
SNTMMSRM also wrote a letter to the Ambassador
of the UK to Mexico protesting the decision.
“We cannot accept that the workers of
Bombardier are being stabbed in the back by a knee-jerk official
decision that casts them into the street without a glance,” states
SNTMMSRM General Secretary Napoleon Gomez Urrutia in the
letter.
1,400 workers face redundancy and the future
of Bombardier, the UK’s last train maker, is at risk.
Revitalizing manufacturing in the UK and North
America continues to be a major focus of Workers Uniting.