Thirty three workers continue to insist on reinstatement to their former jobs and their rights fully restored. These 33 workers who have been fighting for justice since 2008 won reinstatement at Industria Vidriera del Potosí (a subsidiary of Grupo Modelo-AB InBev) as a result of the ruling of the Conciliation and Arbitration Board at the beginning of April 2014.
On 26 January 2008, Vidriera sacked 220 workers including the entire executive committee of the IndustriALL-affiliated glass workers’ union (SUTEIVP). They did so following the negotiated agreement of a 19% wage increase by this independent union.
Workers currently face huge hardship as a result of the company’s actions including «company blacklisting» and complicit local labour authorities making it practically impossible for dismissed workers and their families to find work locally and in other regions of Mexico.