Mexican officials refused to allow a perceived union sympathizer to return to B.C.

[Judi Lynn]

Mexican officials refused to allow a perceived union sympathizer to return to B.C.

Labour Relations Board found Mexican government improperly interfered in union vote

By Tara Carman, Vancouver Sun March 28, 2014 8:51 PM

Victor Robles had worked on the same farm in Mission for six seasons. Each year, when he returned to Mexico, he applied to come back the next year and his employer requested him by name. He thought the 2011 season would be no different.

But in late January, with his employment contract and plane ticket to Vancouver in hand, he was told to report to the Mexican Ministry of Labour, which selects workers for Canada’s Seasonal Agricultrual Worker Program. There, he was informed that a person with his name had been caught in the United States and for this reason Canada was refusing to issue him a visa.

Several days later, after his flight had departed, Robles returned to the government office, where a receptionist looked up his file and told him he was blocked from returning to Canada because there was concern about his union involvement.

Mexican officials, however, stuck to the story that there was a problem with the Canadian visa. Robles did not return to B.C. that year and several months later went to work on a farm in Quebec.

More:
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Mexican+officials+refused+allow+perceived+union+sympathizer+return/9675268/story.html#ixzz2xKTnhLJZ

[Judi Lynn]

1. Union workers have always had a rough time making it in Mexico, as we know.

For the sake of jogging DU memories, this is a story posted here om 2007:

Published on Friday, May 4, 2007 by McClatchy Newspapers
Murder of Mexican Union Organizer Alarms Workers, Activists
by David Ovalle

MONTERREY, Mexico - Santiago Cruz moved to this northern Mexico city to help organize Mexican farmworkers bound for the United States under a legal guest-worker program. His killers spared him no agony.

They bound his hands and feet with strips of T-shirt, strangled him using a beach towel adorned with a cartoon U.S. dollar bill and smashed his head through a wooden banister.

The slaying last month remains unsolved, alarming human rights activists on both sides of the border. Police won't talk about their investigation, but Cruz's friends say they're certain he was killed because of his efforts to stop corruption in a little-known program that provides seasonal workers legally to U.S. farms.

Cruz worked for the Ohio-based Farm Labor Organizing Committee, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO. The committee represents thousands of Mexicans who travel to the United States each year with H2A visas, which the United States grants to workers recruited abroad.

More:
https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/04/957

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In time, those who exploit the working class are going to LOSE, lose big time, lose the control they seek over other human beings. It is GOING to happen.