Solidarity Center News: Mexican Mine Workers' Camp Destroyed; Egyptian Oilfield Workers Step Up Their Struggle

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)The global labor community is speaking out against the forceful destruction of a protest camp that Mexican workers had set up at the La Platosa mine. The workers were decrying management’s efforts to bypass the democratically elected Los Mineros union and instead operate with a corporate “trade union.” In Egypt, embattled workers at the oilfield services company Schlumberger who have struggled to exercise their right to organize since April 2011, recently launched a website to spread their message. Read these stories and more at the Solidarity Center website. - photo: protest against destruction of camps in Mexico; photo courtesy IndustriAll