As part of the agreement, Interior Minister Adán Augusto López will meet with Senator Gómez Urrutia on Monday to find a new way and respond to the demands of the Cananea miners, but also the workers of the Taxco mines. , Guerrero , and Sombrerete, Zacatecas, who also started the strike on June 30, 2007. We continue to trust the President of the Republic and we could not resist the request he sent to us through Minister of the Interior Gómez, Urrutia commented.
He explained that in the conversation he had with López Hernández yesterday, he indicated to him that the workers want a definitive solution and that this consists in forcing the owner of Grupo México, Germán Larrea, to take responsibility for to take over the three strikes and pay the miners. What is theirs.
In the negotiations he has held with government officials over the past 17 months, the magnate remains determined not to comply with the strikers’ demands.
It’s not about money, Larrea is one of the richest men in the country and what he would pay out in back payments and compensation is nothing compared to his immense net worth.
But the underlying problem is his great arrogance and contempt for the workers who dared to shut down work at the historic Taxco and Sombrerete copper mine and silver ores, the union leader said.
The senator from Morena made it clear that little had been achieved in these more than year-and-a-half talks with the federal government, as Larrea simply didn’t answer, “so I think there has to be a political will to force him to do Grupo. México feels at the negotiating table.
The economic proposal reached by consensus will be presented to the federal executive board so that it can evaluate it and make a decision.
He explained that under those conditions, Cananea workers, affiliated with Section 65 of the mining union, voted in a meeting to call off the sit-in at the Cananea-Imuriz intersection on the highway connecting the company to Baja California. Chihuahua and the United States border.
He said the economic resources needed to help pay for lost wages and enroll the 657 miners and their families in Social Security must be established so they can have access to health services.
We hope again that this long-awaited justice will reach the Cananea workers who have been on strike since 2007. It is time that Germán Larrea, owner of Grupo México, compensates the people of Cananea for the social damage this has caused, he stressed. rgh/lma