COB-AIT Brasil: Boycott Lotto and Finta! For the reinstatement of Icaro!

FROM SINDIVÁRIOS PIRACICABA/SP- regarding what happened with the Sindivários Araxá/MG. SINDIVÁRIOS ARAXÁ – FOM – MG, (SP, National Plenary of COB/AIT 9/04/2011)

FF Mercantil, a company from Araxá-Minas Gerais, responsible for products of the Brazilian brand Finta and the Italian brand Lotto, keep their employees in a regime of extremely precarious work conditions and use different means to prevent them from organizing to resist their exploitation: the workers don't receive extra money for working in unhealthy conditions, they are exposed to excessive heat, they receive less than the minimum wage and many are the victims of humiliation, persecution and blackmail. The latest maneouvre to persecute by the bosses occured on March 22, with the dismissal of Ícaro Poletto, member of Sindivários Araxá, belonging to the Workers Federation of Minas Gerais, who was struggling together with his comrades to fight for their rights. The workers who did not surrender to the bosses are still being repressed.

FF Mercantil is connected to Filon Confecções in the city of São Paulo. We don't know what the conditions the workers have in Filon, but they are probably not different than the ones in Araxá, since both places employ the same logic, the logic of Capital, which always supercedes the rights of the individual and the well-being of the workers, constantly sacrificed to maximalize profits.