{"id":400970,"date":"2019-03-23T11:01:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T10:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mexican-government-intervenes-to-end-coca-cola-strike-in-matamoros\/"},"modified":"2019-03-23T11:01:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T10:01:17","slug":"mexican-government-intervenes-to-end-coca-cola-strike-in-matamoros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mexican-government-intervenes-to-end-coca-cola-strike-in-matamoros\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican government intervenes to end Coca-Cola strike in Matamoros"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Mexican government intervenes to end Coca-Cola strike in Matamoros<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Alex Gonz\u00e1lez<br \/>\n    <br \/>23 March 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>On Wednesday, the Federal Arbitration Board declared the ongoing strike by 700 Coca-Cola workers in Matamoros \u201cillegal,\u201d opening the door for lawsuits and mass arrests if the workers continue to picket the city\u2019s bottling facility. The federal government, led by the \u201cleftist\u201d Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador (AMLO), alleges that the Union of Laborers and Industrial Workers of the Maquiladora Industry (SJOIIM) never presented the appropriate documents to initiate strike proceedings at Coca-Cola.<\/p>\n<p>The intervention by federal authorities signals a marked escalation in the attack against the working class. This action openly shows that the local, state, federal and court systems are jointly operating on behalf of the corporations and against the workers. Over 4,700 workers have now been fired, with the blessing of the union and the government, as a reprisal for the strike wave in Matamoros.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a technical work stoppage, there was never a strike, we have notified all parties and the union leader. This stoppage did not exist, a strike was never launched,\u201d said Mar\u00eda Eugenia Navarrete, head of the Federal Board of Conciliation and Arbitration (JFCA).<\/p>\n<p>After learning that the union had betrayed their strike, a group of Coca-Cola workers attempted to enter SJOIIM headquarters Wednesday evening and speak to union leader Juan Villafuerte. A physical confrontation ensued after union thugs forcefully denied the workers access to the building.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, a temporary legal protection was granted by local courts against the federal ruling. Although the union claims to have filed the paperwork, it is entirely credible that the SJOIIM delayed filings in order to sabotage the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/03\/23\/mata-m23.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Mexican government intervenes to end Coca-Cola strike in Matamoros By Alex Gonz\u00e1lez 23 March 2019 On Wednesday, the Federal Arbitration Board declared the ongoing strike by 700 Coca-Cola workers in Matamoros \u201cillegal,\u201d opening the door for lawsuits and mass arrests if the workers continue to picket the city\u2019s bottling facility. The federal government, led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}