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19 August, 2010
Dear President Calderon
I join with the International Metalworkers' Federation in demanding you take immediate measures to guarantee the physical and psychological safety of Cándido Barreucos and Vigilio Melendez, and the other members of the Mexican Miners' Union at Johnson Controls Interiors in Puebla, Mexico.
I am seriously alarmed about the renewed attacks on the workers and these attempts to undermine workers' rights to form and join a union and to collectively bargain, enshrined in ILO convention 87, to which Mexico is a signatory.
I also demand that you carry out a criminal investigation of the violence against Johnson Controls workers and prosecute the persons responsible for these acts.
Sincerely,