[R-G] ALERT FROM CUPE: Colombia liquidates Cali unions, help stop the liquidation of unionists

[Sid Shniad]

ALERT FROM CUPE: Colombia liquidates Cali unions, help stop the liquidation of unionists 



The government moved on Mar. 26, dissolving EMSIRVA, the city-owned waste disposal company, using riot police and soliders to evict the workers from their workplace. Meanwhile, at EMCALI, the municipal utilities company, two union  executives and four fired workers have begun a hunger strike to protest a government-appointed trustee's decison to fire still more union members. 

The unions are asking for email and letters to Colombia's president and cabinet ministers. The government needs to know the world is watching. 



Sixteen members of Cali's public sector unions have been killed since 2004, including union executive Carlos Alberto Chicaiza Betancourt. 

S end  a protest email to president Alvaro Uribe Velez . A copy will go to the workers and their union. 

http://cupe.ca/global-justice/Cali-unions-liquidated