Effect given to the recommendations of the committee and the Governing Body - Report No 321, June 2000

Case No 1974 (Mexico) - Complaint date: 03-JUL-98 - Closed

Effect given to the recommendations of the Committee and the Governing Body

1. 39. The Committee last examined this case relating to the dismissals of trade union officials and threats of arrest at its meeting in November 1999 [see 318th Report, paras. 298-308]. On that occasion, the Committee made the following recommendation:
   • The Committee requests the Government to ensure that the union officials belonging to the Executive Board of the Single Trade Union for Employees of the State, Municipal Authorities and Decentralized Industries in Nayarit (SUTSEM) who were dismissed for their participation in a strike in March 1998 are reinstated in their posts without loss of pay. The Committee requests the Government to keep it informed of any measures taken in this regard.
2. 40. In a communication dated 9 May 2000, the Government states that the members of the Executive Board of the said trade union organization were not dismissed from the jobs for which they were mandated as trade union officials. It adds that at no moment were they deprived of their wages which they continued to receive especially since the corresponding labour proceedings were dismissed and annulled any action that might have prejudiced their employment relations and their wages.
3. 41. The Committee takes note of this information.