24 February, 2010International delegation of Tenaris unionists will travel to Colombia to show solidarity with workers and their union at the Tenaris plant in Cartagena.
COLOMBIA/GLOBAL: A delegation of the International Metalworkers' Federation, composed of Tenaris delegates and union representatives, will travel to Colombia to offer solidarity support to the workers and their union at the Tenaris facility in Cartegena, Colombia from February 26 to March 2, 2010.
The Tenaris Workers' World Council decided at its meeting in Bergamo, Italy in September 2009 to take this action after hearing a report from Jairo del Rio, the President of SINTRATUCAR a new company level trade union formed in Colombia.
At the September meeting, Rio reported on the difficult situation the workers face with company management at the Cartegena plant and the many death threats received by the SINTRATUCAR union board members.
To express active solidarity with the Colombian workers and the union at the Tenaris plant in Cartegena, the delegation will participate in a march called by trade unions in all the big cities in Colombia on February 26, meet with the trade union SINTRATUCAR and seek to present to the local Tenaris management their reasons for their visit.
The delegation includes union and workers' representatives of Tenaris plants in Canada, Argentina, Brazil and Italy and a representative of the IMF from the Latin America and the Caribbean region.