TITLE: Highest Court Rebuffs Nien Hsing's Delay Tactics

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ORG: National Labor Committee

DATE: April 20, 2001

As he has repeatedly done in the past, Nien Hsing's General Manager Lucas Huang attempted to delay--and perhaps derail--the Managua Appeals Tribunal's decision that the Chentex leaders were illegally fired and must be reinstated. Nien Hsing requested that the Court give a more detailed explanation of its decision. The Court reacted quickly. Today the Appeals Tribunal notified the Chentex Union, CENIDH and the Chentex/Nien Hsing company that their decision, as the highest court in the land, is not open for appeal. The court unanimously upheld their prior ruling that the fired Chentex union leaders must be immediately reinstated in their jobs, without discrimination, and that they be paid all back wages for every day they were illegally locked out. The administrative processing by which the judges' decision becomes formalized as a court order mandating the return of the fired union leaders could take ten days. Lucas Huang continues to state that he will never accept the CST-JBE union leaders back into the factory. It is possible that the union will negotiate some compromise solution. But if the union leaders decide to return, it will be done in the presence of riot police who, if necessary, will break down the locked Chentex gate and remove the thugs to allow the union leaders to return to the shop floor. Nothing like this has ever happened before in Central America! Will Kohl's still stand in the way, or will they finally--finally--ask their contractor, Chentex, to obey the highest court in Nicaragua? National Labor Committee 275 7th Avenue, 15th Floor,New York, NY 10001 Tel: 212/242-3002 Fax: 212/242-3821 Email: nlc@nlcnet.org END top