Excellent resources for following El Salvador's presidential election March 15

[Peace Patriot]

Those who have been following events in Latin America know that (barring substantial rightwing election fraud*) the Left is about to win another presidential election--in the overwhelming democratic, leftist tide that has swept South America and is now occurring in Central America. The leftist candidate for president of El Salvador, the FMLN's Mauricio Funes, has been running 10% to 15% ahead in opinion polls, against a corrupt, entrenched rightwing party (ARENA) that has ruled El Salvador for two decades. The election is this Sunday.

Here are some excellent resources for following the El Salvador election:

The 2009 El Salvador Elections - Between Crisis and Change
(a full report on all the issues in El Salvador)
http://cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=511&Itemid=29

CISPES 2009 Elections Blog
http://cispes.org/09electionsblog/

El Salvador Left Poised for Election Victory
http://nacla.org/node/5549

Will the Winds of Change Reach El Salvador?
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1746/68/

El Salvador Left Poised for Election Victory: FMLN Party Promises a People-Centered Government
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1740/1/

EU Election Observation Mission, El Salvador
(See: "Preliminary Statement" 20/12/09 - re Jan 09 mid-term elections)*
http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/human_rights/eu_election_ass_observ/el_salvador/index.htm

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*(There was evidence of rightwing election fraud in the mid-term elections in January--including intimidation at the polls, bussed-in foreigners voting, and the ARENA-dominated election commission refusing to make voter registration rolls public. The FMLN did well in the voting, but not as well as expected, and lost the mayoralty of San Salvador. As of January, the FMLN holds 60% of the mayoralties in El Salvador, and 35 of the 84 seats in the national assembly. I read somewhere that about a thousand election observers are spreading out over the country for the presidential vote. (El Salvador is a small country--a thousand observers is a lot.) The typical groups are the Carter Center, the OAS, and the EU. The EU is definitely involved. I will try to find out who else, so that we can review their reports if there is trouble, and to learn more about El Salvador's election system.)

[Peace Patriot]

1. 33 U.S. Congress members reject U.S. meddling in El Salvador's elections

Posted with discussion here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=405x12460

We should thank and support these Congress members!

[Judi Lynn]

2. I just opened your first link, it looks wonderful. Will settle in to look through this great fund

of information on El Salvador and the impending election which means so very MUCH. They have a chance to break free finally. Sure hope they make it.

Most of us know by now we have to do our own legwork to get informed about Latin America, and the Caribbean, as it has been the practice of our own media to follow only official opinion, the "talking points," on how much American citizens are supposed to know about US policy regarding these other countries.

Had we been informed on what was going on in Latin America prior to Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Bolivia, etc. as they went through their ideological wars against leftists, public opinion here would have weighted AGAINST our right-wing Presidents funding the genocide, and the death squads, and torture centers, and incalculable destruction of the general population in all these countries and others in the region, and the intimidation of the left to the point all the survivors finally went into stunned, grieving silence for a while, savagely wounded.

Our fascists in this country undoubtedly see it as something which can be done all over again, only more permanently. It appears Latin America has OTHER IDEAS, having learned what happens when a small group of powerful monsters in their countries turn over the wheel to sociopathic ideologues in Washington. The very fact that Presidents who have been imprisoned, tortured, beaten, harassed, have had family members tortured, hounded, imprisoned as well, have been elected in multiple countries throughout the area, as well as former rebels becoming elected as leaders even after being threatened, intimidated, attacked relentlessly by US authorities should serve as a promise to NEVER allow this to happen again to them.

The information you've shared should go a long way to helping everyone get a clear view of what is at stake. The first link looks so damned good! From the opening:

Funes will join a new coalition of left-leaning leaders throughout Latin America. The turning of
the political waters constitutes a dramatic shift for El Salvador—and the region. Over the decades,
ARENA administrations have made El Salvador one of Washington’s closest allies in the region and a
poster-child of the free-market, neoliberal policies that have plunged millions into poverty throughout
Latin America. The FMLN’s rise to power would also mark an essential breaking point with the legacy
of the country’s civil war in which the US-backed government and its paramilitary death squads
murdered some 75,000 citizens.

This report seeks to reflect on El Salvador’s current situation as well as the possibilities and challenges
ahead at this pivotal moment for the nation’s future. The report is broken up into thematic sections,
ranging from the campaigns and the economy, to militarization and the diplomatic front, and much
more. These sections are, in turn, divided into more specific issues, such as CAFTA, water privatization,
Plan Mexico, Integration, and potential relations with the new Obama administration.
This report is the product of collaboration between the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El
Salvador (CISPES), the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), and Upside Down World.
We hope this report helps create a more informed public in the United States, and that it contributes in
some small way to Salvadoran’s ongoing struggles for self-determination and social justice.

This is guaranteed to help! Thank you.

[EFerrari]

3. I haven't spoken to my uncle Carlos in twenty years over this situation

except once at a wedding where it was unavoidable. He's up to his eyeballs in ARENA and almost eighty years old. I wonder how many families are split in the same way.

Thanks for the links. Here's hoping, this time.

[Judi Lynn]

4. That would be painful. What a shame. Right-wingers are so rigid. The Arena party

has a horrible record by now, too. That probably wouldn't have happened if they didn't have someone pushing them from the U.S. right-wing in Washington, like Jesse Helms, who couldn't butt in nearly enough to Central America to satisfy himself.

[EFerrari]

5. Well, he was there at the inception of ARENA and although I doubt

he himself killed anyone, he probably helped fund the slaughter. It's a little unreal to me because Carlos was one of my surrogate fathers and never did or said an unkind thing in my presence. My grandparents are probably rolling in their graves over his involvement. He's a very well respected businessman that chose to survive the war by throwing in with the right wing and I hope I never see him again because it's too awful. Travel to El Salvador is not possible for me until he is gone. It's a small place.

Well, anyway, now we have a good way to track the election. :)

[Judi Lynn]

6. You wouldn't have understood the politics, as a child. I'd think the dawning of truth over time

must have been such a sad, overwhelming experience.

It does sound as if he made a deep deep commitment to them. You have chosen a higher road, the right road for yourself. You can't look back, of course, can't save him from his choice. He'll be that way until his last breath.

Hoping for the brighter days ahead for El Salvador.

[Judi Lynn]

7. In El Salvador Vote, Big Opportunity for Leftists

In El Salvador Vote, Big Opportunity for Leftists

By William Booth
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, March 9, 2009; Page A09

SAN SALVADOR -- After a 12-year civil war and a peace undermined by soaring crime, leftists in El Salvador are on the verge of completing a remarkable journey from armed struggle to the presidential palace.

Their candidate is a veteran TV broadcaster and morning talk show host, Mauricio Funes, whose Facebook page lists his political views as "other." Funes, 49, a former correspondent for CNN en Español, was recently recruited by the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), the revolutionary group-turned-mainstream political party that is favored by polls to win the presidency in a vote scheduled for March 15.

Though the FMLN standard-bearers traditionally campaign dressed in fiery red, Funes favors a white Panama shirt, hip bluejeans and designer glasses. And while some of his FMLN stalwarts still favor rhetoric that evokes Cuba's Castro brothers, Funes considers himself to be El Salvador's Barack Obama -- an agent of change in a country beset by the highest murder rate in Latin America and an economy in free fall.

The comparison is overt: Funes and the FMLN use images of Obama in their ads (despite objections by the U.S. State Department), saying both candidates were smeared by their opponents as allies of extremists. The FMLN television spots complete the link by employing the Obama slogan in English and Spanish, vowing "Yes, we can!"

More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/08/AR2009030801775.html?hpid=moreheadlines

[Judi Lynn]

8. Elections in El Salvador Invoke Rivalries of Civil War Years

Elections in El Salvador Invoke Rivalries of Civil War Years



Supporters of Mauricio Funes, the presidential candidate of the left-wing opposition
party F.M.L.N., gathered Monday at a rally in Zaragoza, El Salvador.

By ELISABETH MALKIN
Published: March 11, 2009

SAN SALVADOR — El Salvador’s presidential election is only days away, and prime time television here is jammed with campaign commercials featuring snappy jingles, earnest endorsements — and President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela.

After 20 years in power, the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance, known as Arena, faces the first real challenge to its hold on the government from Mauricio Funes, a former television talk show host who is the candidate for the left-wing F.M.L.N.

The campaign has been vicious. Mr. Funes is popular after his years as a television journalist, so Arena does not attack him directly. Instead, it has linked the F.M.L.N., the party of El Salvador’s former guerrillas, to Latin America’s far-left leaders.

Images of Mr. Chávez appear during almost every commercial break in montages of grainy clips that also feature scenes of street chaos and camouflaged soldiers. The message is less than subtle: Elect Mr. Funes as president and the F.M.L.N. will “surrender” the country to the socialist camp.

The vitriol, analysts say, stems from El Salvador’s 12-year civil war, when the two parties were on opposite ends of the conflict. During the war, which ended in 1992, F.M.L.N. guerrillas fought the American-backed military, while Arena argued for a free hand in defeating them. To this day, the party anthem vows that the nation will be “the tomb where the Reds meet their end.”

More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/world/americas/12salvador.html?_r=1&ref=world

[Peace Patriot]

11. This is smelling like U.S.A. 2004--fear-mongering, corpo/media prep for stolen election

USA 2004

1) Fear-mongering (Osama bin Laden, "Orange alerts," etc.).
2) Screwy polls (clearly time for a change, opinion polls don't make sense).
3) Ugly fascist attack ads ('Swift-boat' scumbags sullying Kerry's medals, when it was Bush and Cheney who avoided military service in Vietnam).
4)Corpo/fascist media prepping the false narrative for a stolen election (all corpo/fascist media)
(--indeed, the NYT withheld a story on Bush spy program until after the election, and CBS execs killed the Bush AWOL story).
5) Mechanisms in place to steal the election, arranged by the party in power (Diebold & brethren, the filthy Ohio Puke machine).

El Salvador 2008

1) Fear-mongering (Chavez replaces OBL - though Chavez is an entirely peaceful leader)
2) Screwy polls (clearly time for a change, opinion polls don't make sense; in this case, leftist running 10% to 15% ahead for six months, and suddenly it's a tie?--I don't believe it)
3) Ugly attack ads (the lying fascists hitting the past FLMN, when it was they who had death squads and slaughtered the bishop, and nuns, and Jesuit priests)
4) Corpo/fascist media prepping the false narrative for a stolen election (in El Salvador, and here in the NYT article, framed as prep for a stolen election)
5) Mechanisms in place to steal the election, arranged by the party in power (in the mid-terms in January, they brought in busloads of foreign workers with bags of false voter ID cards; the fascist ARENA party controls the Election Commission and refused to disclose voter reg rolls).

Part of the NYT framing of the narrative: "The attack advertisements seem to be working. Mr. Funes, the left-wing candidate, began the campaign with a double-digit lead in polls, but he is now in a virtual tie in most of them with the Arena candidate, Rodrigo Ávila, the former chief of the country’s national police."

Is Karl Rove in El Salvador? This is very like a Karl Rover campaign! ("The attack advertisements seem to be working.")

International election monitors seldom issue warnings like this one, prior to an election:

"José Antonio de Gabriel, the deputy chief of the European Union’s election observer mission, said the electoral system had enough safeguards against any large-scale attempt at fraud. But Arena’s broad support in the media, its spending advantage and the negative campaign have all contributed to what he called 'the absence of a level playing field.'”

Bear in mind that the EU signed off on Mexico's stolen election in 2005, in which leftist Lopez-Obrador 'lost' by a hair--only 0.05%--amidst widespread accusations of fraud, and a midnight electronic central tabulator switch to the Bushite, Calderon, who had promised Bush to privatize Mexico's oil. We will need to revisit this EU statement after this election, and review their reports as well as FMLN reports. There is a great deal at stake in this election, for EU financial interests as well as US corporate and military interests.

For instance, Chavez has led the fight to kick the World Bank/IMF out of Latin America, in favor of locally controlled financing aimed at regional independence and social justice. This has cut into the exploitative profits of rich European investors who made their money by destroying--flattening, "shock and awing"--the economies of Argentina, Bolivia and other countries. Chavez formed the Bank of the South to help these countries out of ruinous World Bank debt, and has also been a key leader in the formation of the barter trade group, ALBA (trading oil for beef with Argentina, for instance, or cut-rate oil for Cuban doctors), as well as in the new common market, UNASUR, which now includes the entire continent of South America.

The leftist--and independence (anti-U.S. domination)--movement that has swept South America is indigenous to each country, over a vast area--an entire, huge continent. To say that Chavez is some sort of "leftist strongman" leading the pack is utterly ridiculous. The reverse is true--Chavez has emerged as a leader on the crest of this movement, which is coming from the grass roots and ordinary citizens everywhere. There is no question that he is a visionary leader with innovative programs, but Lula da Silva is also a visionary leader, more key to the formation of UNASUR than even Chavez. So is Michele Batchelet (center-left president of Chile). And, my God, Evo Morales in Bolivia is the Martin Luther King, or Nelson Mandela, of South America. Talk about visionary. Talk about revolutionary. He has brought the vast, poor, indigenous majority to power for the first time in Bolivia's history.

So it is totally wrong and corpo/fascist screwy to create Chavez as a bogeyman--who was completely dependent on his own people to put him back in power in the 2002 rightwing coup attempt. It was the million poor people who poured out of their hovels to surround Miraflores Palace, after the coupsters had kidnapped Chavez, who turned things around. This is the new reality in South America now: democracy. Will. Of. The. People.

The Bushwhack strategy against this democratic, leftist tide appeared to be to "circle the wagons" in the Caribbean/Central America against the new South American common market, and to prepare a war plan for instigating fascist secessionist movements in Venezuela's northern oil rich province, Zulia, on the Caribbean, as well as Ecuador's northern oil region--both adjacent to Colombia, where the Bushwhacks fattened up the military and bought itself death squads and private armies (with $6 BILLION of our money). The Colombian military has already practiced crossing Ecuador's border, after the U.S. dropped ten "smart bombs" on a FARC hostage release camp just inside Ecuador's border last year. The Bushwhacks also practiced instigating a secession movement--with their attempted coup in Bolivia in September. And they reconstituted the US 4th Fleet in the Caribbean, to harry Venezuela's oil coast--an act that even Lula da Silva, president of Brazil, considers threatening (to Brazil's oil reserves). (He proposed a common defense, to UNASUR, which all have agreed to).

"Circling the wagons": CAFTA (to rope Costa Rica's once-progressive government into the neoliberal "free trade" piracy). Stealing Mexico's election (main goal--the oil; also, "war on drugs" militarization). More militarization of Panama. Continued isolation of Cuba. Reconstitution of the 4th Fleet.

The ARENA party fascists have a clientelist relationship with the Bushwhacks, who loosened up visa requirements for El Salvadoran workers in the U.S. ARENA has used this in their fearmongering campaign, to suggest that the U.S. would punitively restrict work visas, and thus remittances, if the leftists win. Like the rightwing in Venezuela, prior to Chavez, they have neglected local manufacturing and development, while exporting El Salvador's poor to shit jobs in the U.S. Now the poor are dependent on these jobs (20% of El Salvador's economy, I recall reading), and more vulnerable to fears that they might be taken away. The best solution for El Salvador is to join ALBA and UNASUR. U.S. (and EU) corporations will never, ever allow El Salvador to develop an independent, healthy, locally controlled economy. They are targeted for continued, rampant exploitation, as a bit piece in the U.S. "circle the wagons" orbit, along with Costa Rica, Mexico and other Central American/Caribbean countries.

I hope they break free, but it looks like the fix is in. You heard it from the NYT!

[Judi Lynn]

12. What a shame. Their scheme in convincing people who have no other information sources

that any talk of real progress is simply some commie plot coming from Hugo Chavez is something we've seen applied in several other places. What would help in that country is INTERNATIONAL observers all over the place, but what are the chances? There'll be observers, all right, but probably more like the paramilitary "observers" who've been reported even going into the voting booth with citizens in Colombia, not to mention the general intidmidation going on there every time, also verified personally by personal statements from former death squad members.

It looks as if the _Bushes both from Washington, through personal visits from _Jeb last election, and Oliver North, and other less well known right-wing thugs have been able to persuade a lot of people the money angle is their only lifeline, and the U.S. controls that line, and they CAN'T AFFORD the luxury of choosing a leader they want. No, CAN'T AFFORD DEMOCRACY. That's the message. Not really a choice, at the bottom of it all. "Democracy" is only a term to be used to promote right-wing interests, NOT to be taken literally.

It came very close to that in a different way here during our last reign of fascist terror. In a small country with poor people desperate to make money any way possible, it's easy to hire them to take up arms against their neighbor if they're staring survival themselves in the face every day.
That's what they count on: as long as there's a constant supply of desperate poor people within reach, it's insurance for right-wingers who can quickly and easily seize power and control the forces to destroy dissent in the LITERAL sense.

Once Americans actually wake the hell up from their great slumber, some of it self-induced through ignorance, indifference, preoccupation with one's own circumstances, and some of it planned through constant control of mass media, a populist awakening can, and should happen here, too. It will once Americans realize how truly screwed they are, and how powerless, and how deeply this control from elsewhere reaches into their most private life, bypassing their own critical thinking skills through propaganda concocted, laid in daily through the media, to keep them unaware of, and disrespectful of others. Desensitization.

What a shame our politicians have never had a "dream" of healthy, respected people flourishing throughout the Americas, free to make their own choices, having real choices available, instead of intimidating, threatening them regularly, every time there's an election, to avoid the leftists, or ELSE!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com.nyud.net:8090/_nKa-dM7PvEo/SR3UB4CxW_I/AAAAAAAADD8/FxGJLWOakGs/s400/dracula.jpg

Oh, there's the guy from the Republican Party.
Can it be election time already?

[rabs]

9. Been watching this the past few days

and it looks like it is a statistical tie, so think it could be really close.

TV, newspapers, radio in recent days have launched a concerted campaign to link Funes with Chavez, Castro and Ortega. The fear factor once again.

Funes at a rally last Sunday said ARENA was conspiring to issue ID cards to Guatemalans and Nicaraguans so they could vote for ARENA. It would be difficult for OAS and other observers to detect this, especially in the outlying remote towns and villages.

Yesterday and today there were clashes in the streets of San Salvador, nothing really serious, five people reported slightly injured and cars dented.

Will be listening to Ecuador radio on Sunday to see how things go.

[Judi Lynn]

10. How disheartening. Funes had been clearly well ahead earlier.

They did this to Peru's Ollanta Omala, when he had a lot of support before the last election, suddenly kicked up a campaign to discredit him, to drag out some one to claim he was really a war criminal, and of course that wierd "commie" labeling you mentioned, and this happened to Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico, when it REALLY really looked for certain he was going to win, from outta nowhere a sudden attack from campaign people claiming he was going to become Hugo Chavez.

It really seemed as if one of those creepy groups from the US like the one which organized a campaign for "Goni" in Bolivia swept into those countries and focused campaigns for the fascists there, as well, because their attacks seemed to get radically focused suddenly in each case, and they both used the same kinds of charges!

So there's some violence already. Provocateurs. No doubt you saw once an admission, surprisingly, from official sources in Colombia, that a carbombing or something in the city which had been blamed on the FARCs was actually set by some military OFFICERS. Ah, ha ha ha.

Just another facet, another ugly view of their dishonest war on mankind. People are already so afraid of these psychopaths, they want to avoid them, but then, if they allow THAT, they won't be able to keep getting money and attention for fighting the "enemies."

[Judi Lynn]

13. In El Salvador, Cautious Optimism On What a Progressive Win Would Mean for U.S. Relations

In El Salvador, Cautious Optimism On What a Progressive Win Would Mean for U.S. Relations
By Roberto Lovato, New America Media
Posted on March 14, 2009, Printed on March 14, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/131552/

SAN SALVADOR -- El Salvador’s election on March 15 is an occasion for Salvadorans to consider future relations with the United States and the new Obama Administration. How the new president and his advisers respond to these elections could be an early measure of U.S.-Latin American relations. And it may also be an opportunity for Obama to begin fulfilling his campaign promise to “lead the hemisphere into the 21st Century.”

As much as he appreciates the change of U.S. administrations, philosophy student Carlos Ramirez, 24, who was sitting beneath a tree near the central plaza of his school, the University of El Salvador in San Salvador, expressed concern that the administration has only made a brief statement of neutrality on the widely-watched elections here. Ramirez and others, including more than 33 U.S. congressmembers who sent Obama a dear-colleague letter about the Salvadoran elections, fear a repeat of 2004. Then, Bush Administration officials intervened in the Salvadoran elections, suggesting that a victory by the opposition party would endanger the legal status of Salvadoran immigrants in the United States and would prohibit remittances they send home.

“I want Obama to understand that there are some students here -- a minority, I would say -- who still have the ‘80’s attitude of permanent confrontation with the United States that we see in campus protests against the Iraq war, CAFTA and other policies,” said Ramirez. “But most of us are open to re-thinking the relationship with the United States. We all recognize that all of us, including the United States, are in a profound crisis and extremely interdependent, as you can see in issues like immigration, trade and security. We’re open and now it’s up to Obama to define his position, and the elections are a good place to start.”

More:
http://www.alternet.org/audits/131552/in_el_salvador%2C_cautious_optimism_on_what_a_progressive_win_would_mean_for_u.s._relations/

[Judi Lynn]

14. Christian Science Monitor: Evangelicals key to El Salvador elections

Evangelicals key to El Salvador elections
The group, which has begun to shift to the left, could determine the outcome of Sunday's presidential election.
By Sara Miller Llana | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

from the March 13, 2009 edition

San Salvador - When Carlos Rivas became an evangelical pastor 10 years ago, he attempted to create a television show uncovering corruption within El Salvador's conservative ruling party. But he was quickly informed that his church prohibited open criticism of the government.

So he founded the Tabernáculo de Avivamiento Internacional (TAI), a church in the impoverished outskirts of San Salvador. And today, his blogs, editorials, and weekly television programs make an art of denouncing injustice and inequality. He has, in other words, adopted the lexicon of the left.

"Pastors once taught us that poverty was natural," Pastor Rivas says. "But it's because of bad distribution of resources."

Evangelicals in El Salvador, who are mostly Pentecostals, have long been a coveted group among politicians: they make up one-third of the population. But most have been apolitical, and those who did engage politically tended to align with the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena) party.

Now that is starting to change. In Sunday's presidential election, according to a University of Central America (UCA) poll, 42 percent of Evangelicals say they favor the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), the leftist party that grew out of a guerilla movement that battled the military in a 12-year civil war, while 31 percent favor Arena. It is a significant shift from 2004, when 44 percent of Evangelicals voted for Arena and only 28.6 percent for the FMLN.

More:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0314/p07s01-woam.html

[Judi Lynn]

15. Salvadoran Labour Ministry Asked to Put a Stop to Union Busting at US-owned plant

March 13 2009

Salvadoran Labour Ministry Asked to Put a Stop to Union Busting at US-owned plant

El Salvador’s Labour Minister José Roberto Espinal Escobar has been asked to intervene to prevent the US multinational Hanesbrands from illegally wiping out union representation at its Inversiones Bonaventure plant outside San Salvador.

The Brussels-based International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers’ Federation (ITGLWF) has warned the government that the actions of companies like Inversiones Bonaventure are besmirching the image of El Salvador’s garment industry in what are already very difficult times.

Says ITGLWF General Secretary Neil Kearney: “On February 6 the company eliminated its night shift and laid off 164 workers, the majority of whom were members and leaders of the branch of the Sindicato de Trabajadores de las Industrias Textiles (STIT).

“The restructuring, which resulted in the dismissal of every trade union leader and virtually the entire membership, was the culmination of months’ of anti-union discrimination on the part of the company.

“The company initially dismissed the union leaders, but when they protested at the illegality of the decision management then changed tack and offered them two years’ severance on condition they sign an agreement saying they had resigned voluntarily and without any pressure from the company.

“The company used scare tactics to push them into accepting the deal, falsely claiming that their union credentials were not in proper order but saying the company was prepared to overlook this fact if the dismissed leaders agreed to ‘resign’.

More:
http://www.itglwf.org/DisplayDocument.aspx?idarticle=15713&langue=2

[struggle4progress]

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