LAN Peru Union Leader Tells of Detention and Threat at Lima Airport (LATAM network)

June 21, 2014

Juan Carlos Talavera Flores, the press secretary of the SITALANPE union of Peru, has reported that he was detained. He reports that during his detention he was threatened by a security staff from the airport. The security staff introduced himself as being sent by LAN PERU. Mr. Talavera explained that this security staff member told him that LAN Peru was going to bring a legal notary to verify his assumed illegal actions.
Mr Talvera explains that it was a confusing, frightening and strange action by LAN Peru to intervene with his detention this morning. The leader of the mechanics union states that the police, and the security personnel of the airport sent by LAN Peru, detained him while he was distributing information to the passengers about delays and cancellations which would occur during the upcoming strike of June 26 and 27.
At the police station, the union leader reports that he was searched unfairly for drugs and incriminatory evidence. At the jail, he was threatened. Hours later he was released without charges.
Juan Carlos Talavera Flores, is a leader in the international solidarity campaign to protect aviation standards in South America. His detention was made while he was distributing information in the Jorge Chavez Airport in Lima and answering questions from passengers about the upcoming industrial actions and strikes in LAN and TAM airlines.

Please go to LabourStart.org to send a message to LAN and TAM Airlines asking them to reach a fair settlement with the Peruvian mechanics union and the Argentinean flight attendants.