Collapse of Dignity (28 page)

Javier Zúñiga, Secretary of Labor; Sergio Beltrán, Secretary of Interior; Napoleón Gómez, President; José Barajas, former Secretary Treasurer; and Juan Linares, Secretary of the The Justice and Surveillance Committee. Members of the National Executive Committee of the National Union of Mine, Metal, and Steel Workers of the Mexican Republic at Highland Valley Copper Mine (Kamloops, British Columbia).

Miners protesting the government of President Felipe Calderón and the aggressions of Germán Feliciano Larrea Mota-Velasco, CEO and major shareholder of Grupo Mexico.

Rescuers leaving the mine after the explosion at Pasta de Conchos on February 23, 2006.

This picture shows the horrible safety conditions in which Grupo Mexico operates in the copper mine of Cananea, Sonora, risking the lives and health of workers and violating human and labor rights.

At the headquarters of Grupo Mexico, protestors praise Napoleón Gómez and demand the recovery of the sixty-three miners who were abandoned to die in the Pasta de Conchos explosion.

Los Mineros protesting against Grupo Villacero and Julio Villarreal Guajardo, President of Grupo Villacero, for violating the collective bargaining agreement and basic labor and human rights in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán.

Meeting of the Strategic Alliance Trinational Committee between Los Mineros and the United Steelworkers led by Napoleón Gómez and Leo W. Gerard in 2011.

Rally and meeting in solidarity with the USW during the strike against ALCAN Rio Tinto for injustices and violations committed in Alma, Quebec in March 2012.

Survivors and leaders of the San José Copiapó mine tragedy in Chile signed a flag in appreciation for the solidarity received by Napoleón Gómez and Los Mineros from Mexico in 2010.

Napoleón Gómez visiting the monument of his father in Monterrey, Mexico, his home town.

Napoleón Gómez and his wife, Oralia Casso, at the 2009 National Convention of the NDP in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Oralia Casso, on behalf of Napoleón Gómez, accepting the prestigious 2011 Meany-Kirkland Human Rights Award from Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, in Washington DC.