AUT: En;CBC,Mexican workers demand aid payments,blockade plant,Nov 15

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From: "Dan" <danA@xxxxxxxx>
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Subject: CBC,Mexican workers demand aid payments, blockade plant,Nov 15
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 22:53:36 +0100

Mexican workers demand aid payments, blockade plant
WebPosted Wed Nov 15 09:20:34 2000

VILLAHERMOSA, MEXICO - Mexican workers who say they never received aid
payments promised them by the government blockaded a gas plant on
Tuesday.


The workers say tax rebates for flood relief never came

About 300 workers took over the Ciudad Pemex natural gas plant in the
coastal state of Tobasco. They want the company to give them tax
rebates the federal government had promised them as part of an aid
package for flooding a year ago.

The rebates are equal to about 15 per cent of their wages, and the
workers say they never got the money.

A union leader says the money could have gone to the campaign fund for
the ruling PRI party, which won the state governorship in October amid
charges of fraud.

About 15,000 workers in the region are affected by the rebates, and
the unions say they might expand the protests.

A company spokesman said the protests did have an effect on the
company's operations, but the situation was under control.









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