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Mr. Thomas 1. Quinlan

RR Donnelley

III South Wacker Drive

Chicago, Illinois 60606



On behalf of the 1.4 million members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the sixty thousand members of our Graphic Cmmunications Conference, we strongly protest another example of your company's anti-worker bias, this time in Brazil. A worker and Union shop steward at the RRD plant in Santa Rita, Brazil was given a live day suspension for convening a Union meeting.

Under Brazilian labor law and international labor standards the shop steward, Sergio Ricardo de Almeida was well within his rights to convene the meeting and had given all proper notices to management. Nonetheless, the supervisors put pressure on the workers not to attend the meeting, with the explicit objective of weakening the Union.

We urge that the suspension of Sergio de Almeida be immediately rescinded and that you order an end to management's anti-worker attitudes and actions.

Your company's ongoing harassment towards RRD workers who are GCC-IBT supporters here in the United States is bad enough. Please don't allow your opposition to democratic rights to permeate your operations overseas where it stains and undermines the image of all Americans.



We join with graphical workers worldwide united in UNI-G to reassert our request for a dialogue. Put Sergio back to work, pay him for any time lost for his unjust suspension and recognize that RRD workers must have their right to freedom of association respected.

Yours sincerely,



James Hoffa, General President

George Tedeschi, Director

Graphic Communications Conference