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Public Sector Rejects Salary
Decree
The United Federation of Workers
and Teachers (CUSIMA) expressed
total opposition to the "salary
decree" for the public sector.
The government unilaterally set
a fixed four percent raise in
public salaries for the first
half of 2007.
The CUSIMA representative
demanded the Ministry of Labor
and Social Security, Francisco
Morales, to withdraw this
decision. According to member
Tyronne Esna Montero, if proper
measures were not taken, they
would call protests for next
week.
The group affirmed that by this
decree the government is denying
the right of workers to
collectively negotiate salaries.
Last week the National
Association of Public and
Private Employees (ANEP)
requested government authorities
to withdraw the decision,
although Rodrigo Arias Sanchez,
presidential minister, assure
the decree would be maintained.
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