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Public Workers
Unions Call For National Strike on April 1
It's summer and a time for strikes.
Yesterday union leaders met to discuss the
salary problems faced by public workers who
say their salaries have not kept pace with
the public sector. A national strike date
has been set for April 1.
The meeting was led by representatives of
the all powerful public workers unions, the
Asociación Nacional de Empleados Públicos y
Privados (ANEP), the Asociación Nacional de
Educadores (ANDE), the Asociación de
Profesores de Segunda Enseñanza (APSE), as
well as representatives from the Sindicato
de Trabajadores de la Educación
Costarricense (SEC), the Sindicato de
Trabajadores Estatales Costarricenses (Siteco),
the Confederación de Trabajadores Rerum
Novarum, the Central Social Juanito Mora and
the Asociación de Trabajadores del
Ministerio de Trabajo (Afumitra), along with
a group of smaller unions.
ANEP's Edgar Morales, assures that the if
the government does not accept to negotiate
a fair salary for the workers, the strike
will be an indefinite one.
Morales said that the union leaders have
agreed to ask for a meeting with the
ministro de la Presidencia, Rodrigo Aria, as
well as the ministros de Hacienda (Revenue)
and Trabajo (Labour), so as to ascertain the
will to give back to the workers what they
are being robbed of with respect to their
salaries.
The union leader was clear that failing any
agreement the country will be plunged into
an indefinite national strike come April 1.
According to a study by the Servicio Civil,
the public sector workers identified as "no
profesionales" receive the lowest pay and
lowest pay increases that does not even keep
pace with inflation.
Morales added that they have met with
Hacienda and Trabajo and they only answer
they get is that "there is no money".
"It is only a scam, because we know they
have the government has a lot of cash on
hand, but they are saving it up to give to
the financial institutions and nothing for
the workers", said Morales.
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