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Blacklists
It may rain or shine, my Barny
I'm going to ask for work as soon as we see each other there
To the jobs that one goes to (see about)
the first thing they ask is that you make reference to where you were working
and because we come from Conti
those entrepreneurs have a blacklist that provide informations which says we are conflictive
We have complained to the government that the workers of General Tire are blacklisted
which put us on bullentins
to not give us work just because we have been part of the General Tire Union
Here we see that in this factory which is Continental
Conti Tech, they are asking for production workers
that's another situation we face with illegal dismissal
by the same owner of Continental
they require workers here, but not workers like us
So let's move on compaƱeros ...
Good morning, I come to look for an operator position
Yes, that's all right.
Here's my phone...
Yes, nothing more, we will take it to Human Resources and they will get in touch with you
Everyone who has applied, they will call?
Yes, there is a process
if everything meets the requirements I think they talk to everyone
if not they only talk to those who passed the process
Ok, thank you.
As we know, the engineer Coronado
is the general manager of Human Resources at the national level
and he is the manager of Human Resources at Continental
here in San Luis Potosi
which is we all know is where he's from
He was the manager of Human Resources at Goodyear Oxxo
when they laid off more than 1,000 workers at Goodyear
So we know that this guy isn't a white dove
and we know why they brought him here
To destroy the union
Good morning, we're here to leave an application ...
Sometimes they make compaƱeros deliver verbal comments
and they tell them ... the Human Resource people that they come to apply with ...
they say, "Ah, you have a problem, you come from Conti
and now we aren't hiring people from Continental
With this, what they are looking for
is to make a psychological and political attack on the workers
who fight to defend their collective contract
their interests, and the interests of any organized worker
We come as a group from General Tire of Mexico
and as a group they laid us off ...
separated by the company Llantera Potosine S.A de C.V
we are denouncing the state of employee discrimmination
that exists towards those looking for work
The people are already fed up
during the entire campaign
we were promised that they would listen to the needs of the working class
You guys who are experts in talking pretty to the people
- you are experts in stealing
We don't want demagoguery
we want to know that the solution
they are going to give not just to us here from Vidriera and in General Tire
but also to the hundres of people
who are trained out there asking for work
That's what we want them to tell us
The companies that settled there
you know, many of them would have helped the state government
to generate jobs
and when this crisis came the first thing that they do is send hundreds of workers out on the street
and some businesses have received aid from the federal government
so what is the responsibility with the working class?
I am not afraid, I don't have anything but my job.
You have not done it.
This is the Federal Question
Pablo knows that we have been in Mexico (City)
hundreds of times so that he would sign and respect this agreement
We don't have a way to solve it.
And the solution to the Vidriera?
the black lists
the black lists are when the reporters come and make this news
and the business people make these decisions
We've spent years looking for work
taking applications and tell us, when have they resulted in a single job?
A year and a half of struggle and the glassworkers have not been granted one job
It's a very complex situation
At least one million adults live in San Luis
and of those at least 40 thousand are without work ...
And why do you all have jobs?
No....yes, it's like that.
Why don't you ever change your jobs?
Well, the situation is to see what alternative the government
has to find jobs because to us
every two months we recieve a bill for the light
every two months we have to pay the water
the fees of the federal schools, the gas
And schools are supposedly free!
Now, where is the role of the government?
We say that it's the government's problem
because this should not exist in this country
because we all have the right to work
And the government washes its hands of it
they say that they can't obligate the companies that contract us
When we tell them that we are victims of labor discrimmination
for the simply being a part of union like ours
We are a group of workers asking
that our need for work be addressed
Just by being a member of a glassworkers union or the General Tire union
we don't have doors opened to us
We don't want this to be just a compromise and that a solution be given to us ...
because we are fighting for a right ...
And we all have a right to work, and earn a living
and I will do my part as best I can
but I'm not the boss
I'm not the one that says yes or no
I will struggle to serve all of San Luis and especially for those in trouble ...