Johannesburg – Unions affiliated to the Congress of SA Trade Unions will use the World Cup to raise awareness about the plight of Mexican workers through pickets outside stadiums where Mexico will be playing."(The unions) have taken a political and conscious decision to embark on a National Day of Action in solidarity with workers and trade unions of Mexico against the continued onslaught and terror unleashed by the fascist and counter-revolutionary Mexican regime," read a joint statement by the unions on Tuesday.They are the National Union of Mineworkers, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, the SA Transport and Allied Workers Union, the Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers Union, and their international allies.Satawu international secretary Zico Tamela said the unions would hold peaceful pickets outside the stadiums where Mexico is to play on June 17 and June 22. They would then march to the Mexican embassy on June 28 to hand over their memorandum of demands.The unions wanted Napoleón Gómez Urritia be recognised as the democratically elected general secretary of the National Mexican Miners and Metalworkers Union, and for all charges against him and other trade union leaders to be lifted.They also wanted an end to the harassment and torture of trade union activists by police in that country.
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