Drummond workers by paramilitaries threatenedStriking coal miners are declared military targets by paramilitaries. It is currently set to strikeValledupar. Leaders of the strike against the U.S. coal company Drummond are threatened with death in a communiqué of the paramilitaries. "We demand the cancellation of each activity to the disturbance of the social order, such as strikes or demonstrations," according to the document, which was signed by the group "Los Rastrojos". The paramilitary Association accused the trade unionists, to disseminate "Communist doctrines" and promises to prevent the "destruction of State policy by the guerrilla activists".The death threat of paramilitary groups is in the midst of a strike by some 3,000 workers of the Drummond and members of the Trade Union Sintramienergética, which began on July 23, after the talks with the United States coal mining company had failed.Also human rights and grass-roots organizations such as the lawyers collective Alvear Restrepo and the Marcha patriotic and left opposition have been declared in the document to military objectives. However, the threat of Los Rastrojos focuses on the mining and metals industry trade union Sintramienergética, Funtramienergética and Sintraime.These organizations to "subversive brainwashing quit", because this "the good and noble intentions of the Government of Dr. Juan Manuel Santos with regard to peace attack" and stopped "by multinational such as Drummond, Pacific Rubiales, Glencore and Anglo gold Ashanti caused progress", which as other companies create wealth and jobs as the first point of the paramilitary communiqué.The workers of the Drummond complain, however, that 12 hours a day six times a week under harsh conditions must work and have still not fixed salary they are paid by the hour. The 4,500 contract workers are even more disadvantaged, because they would get only a quarter of the wage of permanent employees. Drummond, former employees report that may 24 of them died because of the coal dust of the open pit mines of lung cancer. Moreover, there are more than 1,500 who are sick. In addition, 19 miners due to lack of work safety had died.In this context, the striking workers of the Drummond demand especially a 10 percent wage increase, a fixed monthly salary, the improvement in occupational safety, the continued employment of 400 longshoremen and the reinstatement of the 600 striking workers who have been laid off in 2009.Sintramienergética rejected Mocchi Drummond about a pay rise by 5 per cent, which would have discussed the company with Sintradrummond and Agretritrenes. Two small unions had been created by the American company itself and not the majority of the employees represented accuses César Flóres of Sintramienergética. The talks between Drummond and the workers Committee are currently set.Meanwhile opposition urge the Government to protect the trade unionists threatened by the paramilitaries. This year, they had already received a death threat, reported La Silla Vacía. Later, Rubén Darío Morrón, one of the Union leaders, was escape even the assassination of a murder a day before the start of the talks with the Drummond.Already in 2001 three trade unionists and workers of the Drummond have been murdered by paramilitaries. Today Jaime Blanco Maya, a subcontractor of the group in the prison and a judicial investigation against the CEO and other executives of the company is due to the same if running.For this reason, German NGOs demand that coal buyer of the U.S. company like RWE, Eon, Steag, Vattenfall and EnBw to rethink their relationships with the Drummond. The German and Swiss energy provider reject this claim, however. https://amerika21.de/2013/08/84301/paramilitaers-bedrohen-arbeiter
Posted on: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 09:16:29 +0000
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