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``` Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 18:33 EDT From: ctfca@web.apc.org (Christian Task Force on Central America BC) Subject: urgent action October 17, 1994
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URGENT ACTION - GUATEMALA - URGENT ACTION -
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LABOUR LEADER WAS TORTURED BY POLICE
Dear Friends,
On September 8th, Edi Conde Lu, General Secretary of the Light and Power Workers Labour Union of Guatemala, was kidnapped by four policemen in Guatemala City. He was brutally tortured that whole evening and threatened with death. He was finally transferred to several sites outside the city and eventually lost consciousness.The following day, when he had recovered consciousness, he reached his home with great difficulty, where his colleagues from the executive committee, his wife and two children of two and seven years old, were desperate because of not having known where he was. The Inter-American office of the Postal Telegraph and Telephone Workers' Union received an urgent request for assistance and was able to transfer Edi Conde Lu and his family to Panama.
BACKGROUND
Electrical, telecommunications, port and railroad unions have joined together in a Common Front against the Guatemalan government's plans to privatize these services. It appears that the kidnapping is a reprisal against the Common Front of which Edi Antulio Lu is a main leader.
RECOMMENDED ACTION
Please send messages to the Guatemalan government, protesting the kidnapping and torture of Edi Conde Antulio Lu, General Secretary of the Light and Power Workers, requesting an investigation. Please expressing support for him and his family.
Please send a copy to the Inter-American Office of the Postal Telegraph and Telephone International Union (PTTI).
ADDRESSES
Lic. Ramiro de Len Carpio, FAX: 011-502-2-347364 or President de la Repblica de Guatemala, 011-502-2-537472 or Palacio Nacional, 011-502-2-519702 Guatemala, GUATEMALA
PTTI, FAX: 011-507-69-7164 P.O. Box 870042- Zone 7, Panama, Republic of Panama
Thank you for your support.
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 17:12:20 -0400 From: av656@YFN.YSU.EDU (Tony Budak) Subject: eight hour work day
Hello All, I am a union member at IUE Local 717, working at the GM Division, Packard Electric, in Warren, Ohio, midway between Pittsburgh and Cleveland. We are facing a renewed assault on the 8-hour work day, under the double guise of GM's prerogatives to "pilot/experiment" production and to run "alternative work schedule"(s). Our membership was slicked, last Jan 30,'93, into working three twelve-hour day work shifts on and then three consecutive days off work. Under this program our members also rotate days and midnights turns, and as well are not compensated at time and one half (primimum) pay. All of this was initiated without a membership ratification vote as required by our union constitution. Our good old boy leadership, the elected bargaining committee has verbally promised that our members would vote on the contract proposal one year hence, Jan 30,'95. They further say that if we the membership do not approve of this program(which incidently allows management to arbitraitly change shifts and schedules at will)then we stand to lose many jobs from this location. Are any of you that are reading this interested in networking with me and any others who wish to resist and fight to maintain the current definition and standard of the eight hour work day? Please respond as you wish.
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|| "Failure is impossible". - Susan B. Anthony || IN SOLIDARITY, || Anthony Budak 1559 Warner Rd.Hubbard,OH 44425 || TONY || (216)568-7002 e-mail:av656@yfn.ysu.edu || ```
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