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Arnecom Auto Parts Workers in Nicaragua Under Attack Thousands of auto parts workers in Nicaragua, paid just 41 cents an hour to manufacture automotive electrical systems for export to the U.S., are the target of a systematic, illegal campaign led by the Yazaki Corporation to deny these workers their fundamental rights to freedom of association and to organize. On July 6, in the latest attack to destroy the independent union, four of the newly-elected union leaders were fired. Since then, there have been more firings and threats that workers will be fired for involvement with the union. Nicaraguan Congresswoman Alba Palacios has denounced the "union repression" and the "complicity" of the Nicaraguan Ministry of Labor and Nicaragua's Free Zone Corporation in "violating the rights of the workers." The independent Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH) will file a suit before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The Arnecom workers are appealing for international solidarity. Please write a letter to Yazaki, with cc to the Nicaraguan Ambassador and the NLC. We will get your letter to the union so they can use it with the Nicaraguan press and to let their members know that people in the U.S. support their struggle. Click here to read the original report,. Click here to see a model letter to Yazaki North America or click here to see one to the Nicaraguan Ambassador.