Wednesday, August 22, 2007

THE LETTER TO THE BRANDS AND LABOR ORGANIZATIONS IS OUT!

Hola Compañer@s!

We worked all day yesterday with FESTRAS (the union federation Sitracima and Sitrachoi are affiliated with) and union leadership to get the letter out to the brands and the international labor organizations and we are excited about the responses that should start flooding in!

As far as labor organizations:
- Rob from the Solidarity Center, STITCH, and USLeap have both sent out letters of concerns to the brands

And we are hoping for a prompt reply from the brands.

It seemed to be a great way to unite FESTRAS, union leadership as well as the UWGP, in a true display of collective action and solidarity!

Please see this google document to check out the English cover letter to the brands, as well a letter from FESTRAS (Spanish) and a full report on the unions´ cases (Spanish):

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df2tqzbb_0cjxrrc

That´s all for now!
¡VIVA SITRACIMA! ¡VIVA SITRACHOI!

the fauxkawk trio
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Introduction

The workers at the Guatemalan factory CimaTextiles formed a union in 2001. They won a collective bargaining agreement in 2003, and since then have struggled to protect their gains. The corporation which owns the factory, Choi & Shin Co., Inc., consistently tries to break the union's back, and has since its inception. etc. etc. Here is the union's wiki. Here are the pictures from the protest. Here is the urgent action.

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