Mexican miners stage 24-hour strike over leader

REUTERS

7:12 a.m. May 26, 2008

MEXICO CITY – Mexico's mining union said it began a 24-hour nationwide strike Monday in a dispute over the reelection of union leader Napoleon Gomez.
Some 70,000 miners could join the stoppage, union official Carlos Pavon said. He said 90 percent of union members were reporting that they had laid down their tools early in the morning.

All of the sections, all over the country, are not working,â€