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600 FAMILIES WERE AFFECTED
Miners Ask God for their Jobs
The company takes legal recourse in order to restart operations
FROM THE EDITOR
The employees of the Minera San Xavier have organized a mass service at San Nicolás
Church to ask for
divine intervention, for the plant to reopen soon, and for everyone to be
able to return to their jobs in order to maintain more than 600 families who depend from
said activity in Cerro de San Pedro.
The general secretary of Minera San Xavier’s worker’s union, Mr. Narciso
Alvarado, led the workers who were affected by the temporary closing of the facilities.
The managers and employees celebrated a mass in order to ask for the prompt reopening of
the company, given that in t
heir opinion the closing generated important economic losses,
as well as serious unemployment.
However, although the company keeps them under contract and is carrying out training
courses, they are afraid that their families will be affected, as well as the residents of the
municipality of Cerro de San Pedro that work there, in addition to all those who live in the
surrounding areas.
The company complied with the Federal Fiscal and Administrative Court of Justice and
temporarily suspended its activities; however, it is pursuing legal recourse to restart its
operations.
The religious ceremony was carried out at San Nicolás Church, given that this is a place
that has great symbolic meaning for the workers: it is the place that represents their origins
as inhabitants of the mining town of Cerro de San Pedro; in addition, it is very close to
where they work and it is the place that provides everything they need to support their
families.
The general secretary of Minera de San Xavier’s worker’s union stated that the
operations that are carried out in the municipality of Cerro de San Pedro are not dangerous
for any of the residents in the surrounding areas; otherwise no one would live in the
proximity of an allegedly dangerous area.
During the religious ceremony people asked for the prompt reopening of the company,
which gives them work and provides livelihood for all the worker's families, and in
addition, greatly contributes to the economic development of the municipality of Cerro de
San Pedro and surrounding communities.