Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - Approximately 3500 to 4000 workers of trade unions of the Workers Confederation, Bay of Banderas (CTM), paraded in demand for decent work, social dialogue and peace, given the situation of violence that exists in the State of Nayarit, especially in Tepic, the State capital.

Workers in the construction industry, the transport of materials, transport of passengers, traders, musicians, and the gastronomy and hotel industry, paraded on the state road around San Vicente, with the long line of workers towards the villages of El Porvenir y de San José del Valle. They concluded in front of the main square with the sound of the trumpets of the organizers of the Trade Union sections of the Trade Union of Transport.

Workers carried banners and wore t-shirts, which identified their trade union section or group, with various logos, such as the Decameron Hotel, and signifying their slogan: "Unity is our Strength!"

The banner, labeled with red and black background, read: "The workers seek united peace in Mexico," the same message carried on many of the white shirts. They were unionizers of section 30, headed by Rafael Yerena Zambrano, Secretary General of the Federation of Workers of Jalisco, but joined together with the neighboring State of Nayarit.

The Secretary of Workers Section 30 of the Trade Union Gastrohotelero, David Hurtado Castillo, highlighted in an interview the importance of peace in Mexico concerning the events of today and spoke about the new working conditions requiring employees to seek additional available training in order to improve their various working environments.

Hurtado Castillo recalled that they are still waiting for the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) to comply with their needs in the construction of a clinical hospital in Banderas Bay, for the workers of the municipality whose companies contribute to the fund of the State of Nayarit institution.

The leader of the Regional Confederation of Workers of Banderas Bay, Claudio González García, took the opportunity to make known the names of the candidates supporting these causes in the current electoral process.

"Banderas Bay has two aspiring candidates for the CTM: one is Gabino López of Hunacaxtle-Bucerías, and the other is Pedro Delgado Osuna of Mezcales-Valle Dorado."

He added that another supporter of Banderas Bay, who aspires to a nomination for the provincial local government, is the former Director of Municipal Transit of Bahía de Banderas, Francisco Ibáñez. Within the current administration, there is no section for the organization of the CTM within the VII City Council.

González García went on to say that he regretted that the workers remain as a class in the social sector who are more vulnerable in relying on the availability of employment, with the addition of violence which affects the job market in the State of Nayarit.

Accordingly, Nayarit's Senator Carlos Aceves del Olmo, has given instructions to the Nayarit CTM regarding the opportunity of its members to fight for the nomination in the current electoral process in order to support the standard bearer of the tricolor, Roberto Sandoval Castañeda, since he has promised to return peace to Nayarit.

"We are not politicians, we are workers, but it is important to band together now in showing our support. In politics, we can win with unity," he said.

Translated by PVNN