Message of Solidarity from a Haitian Teachers’ Union to the Workers in Wisconsin
Union Nationale des Normaliens d’Haïti (UNNOH)
313, Rue Joseph Janvier
Port-au-Prince, HAITI
Le 06 Mars 2011
The Executive Council of the National Union of Teachers’ College Graduates of Haiti (UNNOH) has received word of the huge and difficult struggle which you are in the midst of waging against the Governor of your State, who is attempting to trample underfoot your legitimate rights by getting an anti-union law passed. These rights, which were acquired by means of tough battles and for which the blood of workers has been shed, may on no account be given away. Therefore there is a categorical imperative, to cite Immanuel Kant, to carry on this fight until ultimate victory, so as to block the vote for such a law and to consolidate the gains which the Governor intends to take away from the comrades in the public sector unions.
In the name of the duty of union solidarity, UNNOH brings to you, comrades of the State of Wisconsin, our firm support in this struggle for the respect of union rights. We urge our comrades there to keep going, to hold firm, in spite of the enormous difficulties which stand in your path. Because victiry is not far off!
For the Executive Council of the National Union of Teachers’ College Graduates of Haiti (UNNOH):
Josué Merilien
Coordinator General