Gómez Urrutia: ArcelorMittal made a mistake in threatening miners

Mexico Metropolis. ArcelorMittal is mistaken if it thinks it will probably finish the collective bargaining settlement (CBA) on the steelworks in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, and easily fireplace them, warned the nationwide chief of the Nationwide Miners’ Union, Napoleón Gómez Urrutia.

In an interview, he confused that the final phrase has not been mentioned in authorized issues, because the employers’ affiliation would have us imagine, as a result of they may file an attraction for assessment in a collegiate courtroom in opposition to the refusal of a district choose to grant them safety in opposition to the choice to cancel the strike that broke out on the steelworks on Might 24.

The one factor the corporate received is an injunction from a choose who didn’t even go to the underside of the matter. He omitted it as a result of he is aware of that it’s a very harmful battle and we’re going to go to the following authorized occasion. They’re very poorly suggested they usually made a mistake..

If needed, the Morena senator defined, We’ll go to the Supreme Courtroom of Justice (of the Nation, SCJN); we’ll combat in courtroom, since we’re proper, as a result of the corporate violated the regulation and the CCT by refusing to make a good distribution of income to its staff, affiliated to part 271 of the Miners’ Union..

He reported that the union’s attorneys are already getting ready collective and particular person injunctions to guard the Lázaro Cárdenas miners from the specter of dismissal that the administration of the multinational in Mexico has formulated.

He added that the corporate consciously provoked the battle that has paralyzed the steelworks for a month and 20 days with the intention of canceling the collective and particular person relationship with every of the greater than 2 thousand staff, “with the aim of adjusting to a union charroas companies with out social sensitivity adore it.”

Solely, he insisted, the multinational is flawed, As a result of we’re not within the period of (Vicente) Fox and (Felipe) Calderón, when 40 thousand members of the Mexican Union of Electricians (SME) have been thrown out onto the streets with a stroke of a pen and the proprietor of Grupo México, Germán Larrea, was allowed to interrupt the strike on the Cananea mine and fireplace Sonoran miners, who’re nonetheless combating..

On this final case, he mentioned, even the SCJN accepted Larrea’s transfer to request the termination of labor relations. attributable to drive majeure and reopen the mine per week later.

Curiously, added Gómez Urrutia, ArcelorMittal executives additionally use this argument. explanation for drive majeure which applies solely when a pure phenomenon or an accident destroys the services or there’s another issue that stops the corporate from working, and there’s no such factor.

Let the metal trade businessmen not overlook that the federal government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador respects and defends labor rights, together with the appropriate to strike..

The corporate, he mentioned, was flawed from the beginning, because it tried to deceive staff and the union with the tax returns it submitted for this yr’s revenue sharing.

Excessive income

There had been no drawback earlier than, he mentioned, since in 2021 the income he obtained have been extraordinary, with a really favorable distribution for the employees. In 2022 they lowered it by half, with the pretext of the results of the pandemic and different issues, and it was accepted. Nevertheless, for 2023, which is what we’re combating for, they lowered it to a 3rd despite the fact that we all know that final yr’s manufacturing didn’t lower, and that metal costs didn’t lower so drastically both.

He even detailed, The CEO of ArcelorMittal, final November, throughout a gathering we had with the corporate’s administration physique and members of the nationwide committee of the union, informed us that they anticipated very excessive income in 2023, however abruptly they current a really low declaration, with very excessive prices, which reduces the distribution to the employees by a 3rd, and the dissatisfaction of my colleagues from part 271 arises..

Senator Gómez Urrutia mentioned that in the first place the mining firm supplied them solely 3 thousand pesos in meals vouchers and has been elevating the quantity till reaching 40 thousand pesos, however 20 thousand of those in vouchers, a proposal that almost all of the employees and miners of the metal firm rejected final Tuesday in a free and secret vote.

He mentioned that the employees are asking for the next quantity and the manager committee that he heads is mediating to succeed in a good settlement that can finish the strike.

This week will likely be vital and key to unlocking this battle, supplied that the corporate acknowledges that it has made a mistake.The issue, he defined, is that the consortium is badly suggested by anti-union workplaces that don’t perceive that these are completely different political instances and completely different labor rules.

For every day that passes, he added, the corporate stops making income simply because it doesn’t pay its staff their income. The Miners’ Union is at all times keen to hunt agreements and likewise to defend its members and their contracts with all its may.

He recalled that the Nationwide Union of Mining, Metallurgical, Metal and Related Staff of the Mexican Republic has simply celebrated its ninetieth anniversary. We’re stronger and extra united than ever. ArcelorMittal ought to suppose twice earlier than attempting to hurt the colleagues in part 271. There they may face a wall of metal.