Y DEL CORREO DIARIO:

NOS ESCRIBE UN LECTOR COMENTANDO LAS "PERIPECIAS DE WALMART EN NORTEAMERICA":

Hola Victor y gente del sendero,
aca hay una nota en ingles acerca de una protesta en un walmart en FLORIDA, USA... En resumen, TODOS los empleados se salieron de la tienda y comenzaron a protestar por justicia. Quiza lo que esta pasando en Mexico les dio algo de valor. Sigan con el buen trabajo!! Por cierto, la pagina de truthout, entre otras, trae muchisima informacion acerca de las graciosadas del dos veces espurio de los usa...

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/101806LA.shtml

NOTA ORIGINAL:

Wal-Mart Workers Walk Out
By Pallavi Gogoi
BusinessWeek

Tuesday 17 October 2006

Employees at one store in Florida stage a protest - and win a reprieve.

For months, politicians and activists have been saying that the low prices at the world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores, come at a tremendous cost to its low-paid employees. They point to lawsuits that contend the company discriminates against women and forces low-paid employees to work through lunch breaks and after their shifts, without extra compensation. Wal-Mart has also been boosting its political contributions to stop initiatives aimed at forcing the retailer to raise pay and benefits.

Now, as Wal-Mart rolls out a new round of workplace restrictions, employees at a Wal-Mart Super Center in Hialeah Gardens, Fla., are taking matters into their own hands. On Oct. 16, workers on the morning shift walked out in protest against the new policies and rallied outside the store, shouting "We want justice" and criticizing the company's recent policies as "inhuman." Workers said the number of participants was about 200, or nearly all of the people on the shift.

It's the first time that Wal-Mart has faced a worker-led revolt of such scale, according to both employees and the company. Just as surprising, the company quickly said it would change at least one of the practices that had sparked the protest. Late in the day on Oct. 16, there was some disagreement over which of the new policies would be put on hold.

The protest wasn't led by any union group. Rather, it was instigated by two department managers, Guillermo Vasquez and Rosie Larosa. The department managers were not affected directly by the changes, but they felt that the company had gone too far with certain new policies. Among them were moves to cut the hours of full-time employees from 40 hours a week to 32 hours, along with a corresponding cut in wages, and to compel workers to be available for shifts around the clock.

In addition, the shifts would be decided not by managers, but by a computer at company headquarters. Employees could find themselves working 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. one week and noon to 9 p.m. the next. "So workers cannot pick up their children after school everyday, and part-timers cannot keep another job because they can be called to work anytime," says Vasquez.

In addition to scheduling changes and reduction in hours, workers are now required to call an 800 number when they are sick. "If we are at an emergency room and spend the night in a hospital and cannot call the number, they won't respect that," says Larosa, who has worked at the store for six years. "It will be counted as an unexcused absence."

Beginning last week, the two managers began talking with other employees, one at a time, getting their signatures in support of a protest. The demonstration may not have happened if not for the tight-knit nature of this predominantly Spanish-language community near Miami. At least 15 department managers joined the workers in speaking out against the new policies. "We are a Spanish-speaking community, some from Cuba, some from Venezuela and the Dominican Republic, and if something affects my brothers and sisters, it affects me," says Yahima Morales, who has been a department manager of health and beauty aids for four years at the store.

The employees drafted a protest letter that they have sent to executives at Wal-Mart headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., and also to Florida politicians, including Florida Governor Jeb Bush. "In the letter, we state that we want justice and that Wal-Mart should stop harassing us," says Vasquez. At least 400 store employees have signed the letter.

Wal-Mart spokesman David Tovar says his understanding is that the protest was prompted by the reduction in hours, which he says was simply a mistake. "The new schedules posted made it seem like some hours were reduced, but that was inaccurate and we have corrected it." Tovar wouldn't talk about the sick-leave issue, saying that he wasn't aware the topic was raised by the workers. As for the changes in shifts, he says: "Our schedules are set so that we have adequate staff during the busiest hours of the day."

The scheduling changes, which have been rolled out in Wal-Mart stores around the country in recent weeks, are a sign that the retailer is acting on ideas outlined in an internal document that was leaked last year. In the memo, a Wal-Mart executive said it would find ways to rid its payroll of full-time and unhealthy employees who are more expensive for the company to retain.

Wal-Mart executives have recently told Wall Street analysts that the company wants to transform its workforce from 20 percent part-time to 40 percent. Recently, it was also reported that older employees in some stores who had back and leg problems were barred from using stools on which they had sat for years.

The moves come as the company is struggling to keep its profits growing at the rapid rate that they have in the past. As it squeezes its workforce expenses and trims costs in all corners, it is also expanding overseas. On Oct. 16, The Wall Street Journal reported that Wal-Mart has agreed to spend $1 billion to acquire Trust-Mart, a closely held Taiwanese company that owns one of the largest food and department store chains in China.

What's next at the Hialeah Gardens store, where store managers have had to pitch in to keep the store open? Is this the first step to forming a union at the store? That's unlikely, given the fate of previous attempts to unionize store employees. When employees in Jonquière, Que., Canada, voted last year to unionize, Wal-Mart shut the store. Vasquez says the workers haven't really talked about their plans, beyond getting the company to change its practices. "At this point, we just want to be heard," he says.



NUEVAMENTE LA CONVOCATORIA DE LAS MUJERES DE ANDRES:
EL GRUPO DE
LAS MUJERES DE ANDRÉS
CONVOCA ¡¡¡

A QUE JUNTOS ROMPAMOS EL CERCO INFORMATIVO, HEMOS INICIADO YA UNA “EXPO INFORMATIVA CIUDADANA” QUE ESTARÁ CADA SÁBADO DESDE EL 7 DE OCTUBRE AL 19 DE NOVIEMBRE VISITANDO TU DELEGACIÓN, AHÍ ENCONTRARAS DATOS DE QUIENES NOS GOBIERNAN PARA DARLES SEGUIMIENTO Y EXIGIRLES CON FUNDAMENTO QUE CUMPLAN SU MANDATO EN TRANSPARENCIA Y HONESTIDAD TAL COMO SE LES PROTESTA, (Y SI NO QUE SE ATENGAN A LAS CONSECUENCIAS JURÍDICAS Y MORALES QUE CORRESPONDAN) , INFORMACIÓN DE LA CONVENCIÓN NACIONAL DEMOCRÁTICA, DE LA RESISTENCIA CIVIL Y DE LOS ACTOS LLEVADOS A CABO, PARTICIPA, TRAE UNA CARTULINA, MANTA O PANCARTA EXPRESANDO LO QUE SEPAS Y QUIERAS INFORMAR A LA CIUDADANÍA, INVITA A TUS VECINOS , TODA LA INFORMACIÓN QUE SE RECABE VISITARÁ LAS DELEGACIONES CON NOSOTRAS. ESTE SÁBADO 21 ESTAREMOS EN LA EXPLANADA DE LA DELEGACIÓN CUAUHTEMOC, Y EL DOMINGO 22 EN EL PARQUE DE LOS VENADOS EN LA DELEGACIÓN BENITO JUÁREZ DESDE LAS 14 HASTA LAS 20 HORAS. APOYANOS RECUERDA QUE RESISTENCIA CIVIL ES ROMPER EL CERCO INFORMATIVO.
POR UN MÉXICO LIBRE DEMOCRÁTICO TRANSPARENTE E INFORMADO ¡¡ HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE ¡¡¡¡¡¡



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NOS ESCRIBE LAMPARA AMARILLA:

NOS ENVIAN LAS DIRECCIONES DEL DIARIO "EL MUNDO",que esta desinformando a los españoles ,mencionando a la APPO como un grupo casi "guerrillero",no podemos permitir que un medio sea usado para desinformar de esta mentira,sin recibir la protesta de nosotros.

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Y AQUI LAS BASES TEORICAS DE LA DESOBEDIENCIA CIVIL:

Buen día, solo les envío esta liga endonde se incluye un docuemento claro con referencia teoricas muy bien sustentadas, digo para aquellos que aun tengan dudas de la validez de la desobediencia civil encontra del fraude electoral.

Es un documento que refiere al principal libro de John Raws que es el principal teorico de la justicia en el que se basa la filosofía política actual (tercera vía o socialismo liberal), misma que busca sustituir al modelo neoliberal que ya esta en decadencia por sus grandes fracazos, no debemos permitir seguir otros 6 años con este modelo caduco e injusto!

LINK AL ARTICULO

Saludos