From the Editorial Staff
The newspaper La Jornada
Monday, August 5, 2024, p. 15
Three internal currents of workers, affiliated with the Union of Telephone Workers of the Mexican Republic (STRM), denounced that the recent internal process that gave the thirteenth re-election to the leader of the union, Francisco Hernández Juárez, was plagued by serious irregularities
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By remaining as general secretary since 1976, instead of strengthening the STRM, It has served to prevent telephone operators from winning new labor rights and has kept us for decades on the defensive against the employers’ attacks of the Slim family, encouraging demobilization, promoting the productivity rates demanded by the company, attacking our labor rights and entrenching a bureaucracy that maintains control of the internal life of the union.
the workers said.
In a joint statement, the trade union currents Telefonistas Construyendo Democracia, Desde las Bases Telefonistas and Telefonistas Subversivos, reproached that, given the importance of this union in the national trade union movement, The Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration should have participated in monitoring the process, but it did not do so.
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Meanwhile, they stressed that the re-election for 48 consecutive years of the same leader, affects the right of telephone operators to be elected as such
They explained that, in addition, the provisions of the Federal Labor Law in its article 358 are violated, since democratic participation and the right to be voted for said position are prevented. At the end of his next term, Hernández Juárez will have had control of the union for 52 years.
They reported that throughout the recent internal process there were dozens of sanctions against retired opposition members, and among the various irregularities they assured that it was used the entire union structure
in favor of the official list, and with the consent of Mexican Telephones
and various companies, the payment of several economic benefits was made to coincide with the voting.
