Collapse of Dignity (60 page)

Trouyet, Carlos,
268

Trujillo Matamoros, Victor Alberto (Brozo the Clown),
253

Trujillo Salcedo, José Miguel (Judge)

    
Acosta Azcón, Agustín's case suspended by,
259–260

    
Agencia Federal de Investigacion (AFI)'s failed searches and,
262

    
filing of criminal complaint against,
264

    
issuing of arrest warrant for Larrea brothers,
264

    
lack of profesionalism of,
260

    
recusal of,
291

    
testimony of Larrea Mota Velasco, Germán Feliciano before,
256

Trumka, Richard,
319

TV Azteca,
102
,
166
,
218

    
Alatorre, Javier, as news director of,
189

    
ownership of,
188

    
portrayal of unarmed workers as fault of violence,
120

    
Salinas Pliego, Ricardo of,
163

Unefon,
164

Union of Miner, Steel, and Related Workers of the Mexican Republic, assets of,
137

Union Pacific,
41

Unions

    
correlation with operating efficiency and productivity,
314

    
decline in global rate of,
316

    
future of,
313–317

    
purpose of,
313–314

Union Training and Leadership Institute, proposed creation of,
314

United Steelworkers Union (USW),
31
,
290

    
contact between Gómez Urrutia, Napoleón, and,
98–99
,
102

    
Gerard, Leo, as international president of,
31
,
55

    
Neumann, Ken, as national director for Canada,
55

    
Strategic Solidarity Alliance between Miners' Union and,
32

Uruapan (city),
122

Valadez, Blanca, writings of,
258

Valdés, Humberto Moreira, inauguration of,
35

Vale, common strategies to defend their interests,
155

Valentine's Day,
41

Value-added taxes (VATs),
151

Vamos Mexico Foundation,
146

    
Grupo Villacero's contribution to,
122

Vancouver, Gómez Urrutia, Napoleón's stay in,
109–111
,
130–131
,
137–139

Vega Morales, Alejandro,
269

Velásquez, Juan,
108

Vera Lopez of Saltillo, Raúl (Bishop),
307

Veta de Plata,
252

Villarreal Guajardo, Julio

    
attorneys borrowed from,
106–107

    
inheritance of scrap steel business from father,
113

    
as leader of Grupo Villacero,
177

    
opposition to Gómez Urrutia, Napoleón's run for Senate,
175

Villarreal Guajardo, Pablo, inheritance of scrap steel business from father,
113

Villarreal Guajardo, Sergio, inheritance of scrap steel business from father,
133

Villarreal Guajardo brothers

    
donation of money to Calderón,
231–232

    
as enemy of miners,
175

    
opposition to workers,
227

    
strategy of, against Gómez Urrutia, Napoleón,
101–102
,
129–130

Virgin of Guadalupe, as emblem of Cristeros movement,
40

Vives, Emilio Gómez

    
as enemy of miners,
175

    
industrial homicide charges leveled against,
181

    
as Undersecretary,
48

Volkswagen Workers Union,
231

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, quote of,
141

Wage-control policies,
36

Waldman, Lorne, as member of Canadian legal team,
299

Warda, Manfred,
302

West Virginia, death of workers in accident at coal mine in,
280

“White Cape,”
40

Women's Front to Struggle for Workers' Dignity in Mexico and the World,
314–315

Workers Revolutionary Confederation (CRT),
41–42
,
49

Workers' rights, defense of,
314

Working conditions in globalized companies,
155

World Congress of Vienna, Austria, election of Gómez Urrutia, Napoleón as member of Global Executive Committee,
31

World Mint Directors Organization, Gómez, Napoleón, as president of,
12

Yellow unions,
28

Zabludovsky, Abraham, as upstanding journalist,
190

Zabludovsky, Jacobo

    
radio interview with Moreira,
171
,
173

    
as upstanding journalist,
190

Zacatecas,
270

Zavala, Juan Ignacio,
165

Zedillo, Ernesto,
164

    
government of,
143

Zhenli Ye Gon,
167

Zinser, Alberto,
249–250

    
meeting with Gómez Mont, Fernando,
239–240

Zuñiga, Javier, as loyal union member,
274

Zúñiga Velázquez, Juan Luis,
295–296

    
del Toro, Marco Antonio's presentation of complaints on behalf on,
134

    
forgery of signature of,
133

Zweig, Stefan, quote from,
95

Napoleón Gómez Urrutia's struggle for union democracy and for
the respect and dignity of workers is well known worldwide. He has served as general secretary of the National Mining and Metal Workers Union since his unanimous election in 2002, and was reelected unanimously for a new six-year term in 2008 in addition to being elected president of the union in 2012. An Oxford-educated economist, Gómez also graduated with honors from the Department of Economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. For twelve years, he served as director of the Mexican Mint, and is the only Mexican to serve as international president of the Mint Directors Conference, a position he held for two years.

Gómez was the 2011 recipient of the AFL-CIO's prestigious International Meany-Kirkland Human Rights Award, and in the same year, he was nominated for the Edelstam Prize and the Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights. He is also a member of the executive committee of IndustriALL Global Union, the world's most powerful union organization. He works closely with leaders of unions around the world, including the United Steelworkers Union of North America.

Napole
ó
n is a hero, because every day he fights for the lives and welfare of the Mexican workers and their families
.

—
RICHARD TRUMKA, PRESIDENT OF THE AFL-CIO