The Mexican government removed mining union boss Napoleon Gómez Urrutia from his post yesterday, which provoked a series of work stoppages. The case against NapGo bossing the miners is pretty open and shut: he stands accused of embezzling millions of dollars, and he hasn't set foot in Mexico for years as a result. It's too bad Labor Secretary Javier Lozano can't follow this up with about six or eight more removals, starting with the boss of the teachers' union, Elba Esther Gordillo, but it's a start.
In other labor news, one of the nation's foremost experts on the subject, Alfonso Bouzas Ortiz of UNAM, recently called for a reform that places emphasis on creating democratic unions.
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