They ask the head of Labor to explain “why his father litigates against Mexican retirees”

Enrique Mendez

Newspaper La Jornada
Thursday February 23, 2023, p. eleven

The president of the Infrastructure Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, Reginaldo Sandoval (Partido del Trabajo), asked the Labor Commission to summon the Secretary of Labor, Luisa María Alcalde Luján, to appear to explain why his father’s office litigates against Mexican retireesto whom it seeks to impose -he said- an agreement that would reduce the amount of their payments to 1.7 percent.

In a press conference together with retirees from the company, the legislator explained that they won an award, which will guarantee their retirements, when the payment for the purchase of the company’s brand, declared in bankruptcy in 2010, is finalized.

On behalf of a group of retirees, Iván Enríquez Barragán reported that they obtained an award in 2015, and that the office of Mayor Luján’s father promoted and won another, copied from oursin 2019, in favor of unionized workers.

However, he said, of the economic assets that result from the decision of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, it is intended to pay proportionally to all; that is, first those with large salaries and for retirees, what is left over, despite the fact that we won the trial.

He noted that as part of the negotiation to which they are intended to be forced, the Ministry of Labor requires them to lift two embargoes of the assets of the defunct airline, to guarantee the payment of their pensions, but this would imply dividing the funds between retirees and union members.

After 13 years of struggle, they ask us for that in exchange for crumbs, 1.7 percent of what they owe us. In my case, from a calculated payment of 800 thousand pesos, I would have 20 thousandexposed Enríquez Barragán.

In a letter on behalf of the retirees, he argued that the sale of Mexicana it must be transparent, which will not be achieved if only the Ministry of Labor intervenes, which, incredibly, is the one that persecutes, harasses and threatens us with legaloid maneuvers and a political operation that we thought was a thing of the past.