"We're defending the Puerto Rico Telephone Company not only because it's our rice and beans but because it's a national patrimony," said Annie Cruz, president of the Independent Brotherhood of Telephone Workers, one of two telephone unions on strike.
To the consternation of the prime minister's supporters, he spent the weekend telephoning union leaders personally, urging them to return to negotiations.
The 46,000-member telephone workers' union challenged the planned sale and filed suit, demanding that Ms. Alsogaray be dismissed.
A small fire Thursday in the San Juan offices of the telephone workers' union, the Independent Telephone Employees Union, prompted investigators to announce that they would determine if the fires were linked.
The telephone workers' union accepted the privatisation of Telmex, the state telecoms firm, in return for a lucrative share deal for its members and, say some, a political alliance with Mr Salinas.
Cawdrey, a telephone workers' union official, turned back a strong challenge in 1983 by Baker, a stockbroker, defeating him 629 votes to 539.
Francisco Hernandez Juarez, head of the powerful telephone workers union, openly washed his hands of the program, saying he hopes that the Mexican people will not blame unions for measures the government has taken.
The repeal effort is supported by the telephone companies, unions and consumer organizations.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet [It's] an enormously involved affair which starts with a young lady named Therese telephoning Western Union and asking that Valentine Greeting 242 be delivered to a certain young man.
[It's] an enormously involved affair which starts with a young lady named Therese telephoning Western Union and asking that Valentine Greeting 242 be delivered to a certain young man.
In February of 1942, The New Yorker reported on "the saddest Valentine's Day story" of the year: [It's] an enormously involved affair which starts with a young lady named Therese telephoning Western Union and asking that Valentine Greeting 242 be delivered to a certain young man.
