Jaime Enriquez
an electrician
resistance (interview)
Tomás Oropeza Berumen
Months before the PAN government headed by Felipe Calderon issued the decree illegal termination of company Luz y Fuerza del Centro (CLyF) took a series of bizarre incidents that were then passed unnoticed or unexplained for workers and address of the Mexican Electricians Union (SME) despite the long political experience of that organization met by then 95 years of existence.
Simultaneously with the division of the union's agent by Labor Secretary Javier Lozano Alarcón, Alejandro Muñoz scab, its theft of computers in the Union where he was the database of names, jobs, income and homes all members, delayed payment of overtime, the presence of strangers on the premises and offices, who were presented by the immediate superiors as apprentices and were in fact soldiers who had the task of replacing workers, events that aroused the suspicion of some unionists who felt that something was afoot against the workers.
A 19-month-long resistance, dozens of demonstrations, two hunger strikes, several seedlings in the Zócalo, in front of the Chamber of Deputies and thousands of hours of negotiations brigadeo and interviewed the worker Jaime Enriquez, a member of the drafting of the Magazine Transformer for us to talk of the movement's current situation and prospects.
The talk was held in March, the Labor Economics Workshop, Faculty of Economics, where he attended several smeítas as part of an information campaign conducted in schools located in the heart of University City.
Jaime Enriquez, who held the post of steering wheel Atlautla plant, in the direction of the volcanoes near Amecameca and Ozumba, Mexico State, had a seniority of 25 years 6 months at the time of settlement Company Luz y Fuerza del Centro. I was less than four years to reach retirement. The work he performed required a high qualification, acquired fucks and everyday risk. His daily salary was 320 pesos.
tells us how she got started in the CL and F in 1984: "I started as a regular assistant, before I was taking other jobs, especially, sub-agent, foreign agent. There were options in the Company, which wanted to move could do it. The leaflets are the supplement to which they go on vacation. The schedule to fill the positions.
Until October 11, 2009 the Company supplied electricity to the capital, the Federal District, 80 municipalities in the state of Mexico, two cities in the State of Morelos, 5 of Hidalgo and Puebla 2.
Since he was fired along with another 45 thousand workers the head of household, father of two boys, has survived on the boat, the support of other unions and above all gradually selling the family estate. The car, furniture, etc.
- More than a year and a half to resist the privatization policy of the regime PAN learning what have you had?
- As we have seen that the situation of the country is terrible. The country is torn. And I've noticed that Mexicans are very indifferent to what happens. It is part of a system that divides us so we are not grouped. I think it's caused by the government. Never been so bad the country. Not only we are sticking to us, we are sticking to all but there is no coordinated resistance, everyone is defending as he can.
- What do you think the changes that the PRI and PAN claim made to the Federal Labour Law?
- I think the PRI and PAN are colluding for approval. The only way to stop the neoliberal reform is the grouping of workers and peasants, the mobilization and the struggle to prevent neo-liberal reform. Calderon's government advertises its labor reform bill, saying that it could create more jobs for youth and women. But that is a lie. I would not be catastrophic, but I think it will take a long time to recover the country.
- No little more than a year carried out the 2012 elections what you expect from this process?
- I do not understand the alliance between the PRD and the PAN, which is coupled to the left right. I believe that the PAN will not give in, they will not leave power so easily. Are going to stick. And I think the PRI is an alternative either. PRI and PAN. Are the same.
- From their point of view what does it take to change things in the country and where it should be the change?
- Speaking of parties, I think the only option would be Andrés Manuel López Obrador (PT), but just not coming. Would have to be with a broad alliance of organizations and social forces, but left.
- And you think López Obrador himself plans to meet with him at his rallies and in their propaganda?
- has not arrived. I give the benefit of the doubt. Remember that when he was Prime Minister of the nation's capital made several programs that benefited the population: support for single mothers, the elderly, childcare, etc.
- should be pointing to the need of the organization from below, from the people to forge an alternative to today's society. That is the case of Bolivia, where by elections became president an indigenous coca grower, Evo Morales, backed by a broad movement, the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) with a social transformation project. And although there Socialist Constitution was approved, the people has not stopped fighting. For example miners recently held a general strike for higher wages. And the government decided to grant.
the Zapatistas in Mexico and other movements sought to create an alternative anti-capitalist, but after the criminal repression of San Salvador Atenco, ordered by former President Vicente Fox and Mexico state governor Enrique Peña Nieto, there was a withdrawal. Do you, as a worker do you think of the Zapatista struggle, considers an alternative?
- It seems that no longer exist. What I understand is that the Zapatista movement was a rural movement of indigenous peoples in Chiapas state to emerge in 1994 to a call to overthrow the government. Today I do not know if the army has surrounded or are in very difficult conditions and therefore almost not expressed. But we must see what happens in the coming years.
By the way, he adds, "I live behind the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco (UAM-X) and remember that this year was heavily guarded by all manner of judicial and police because it was said that Mark taught there.
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