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Dominicana_1965
13th February 2008, 21:35
Panama, Feb 12 (Prensa Latina) Panama's largest union, CNUSI National Confederation of Independent Trade Unions, which includes construction, public workers, teachers and public health unions, called for a national march on Wednesday.
At its national trade union leaders' meeting Monday, CNUSI called for the march to demand better salaries, and to protest the high cost of living, the mines and hydroelectric plants affecting the ecosystem and the indigenous and farm communities.
The leaders denounced the total disdain of the Panamanian government for union liberties, entrepreneurs' lack of knowledge of health regulations for labor, lack of labor security and repudiated hired assassins and the "yellow trade union movement."
In the last hours, information was received of threats to selectively kill leaders of the National Construction Union, and particularly its organizer Saul Mendez.


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http://plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={D0D0F6A1-475D-4A09-ACB9-EFC291EFE681}&language=EN

bayano
27th February 2008, 02:07
I posted up a storm about this uprising on my blog. even gave it its own section:

http://blogs.infoshop.org/UrbanGuerrilla.php?cat=199

of course, start with the bottom post and work your way up. its a crazy story, or at least i think so being panamanian

Colón - The violent repression of Sindicato Único de la Construcción y Similares (http://www.suntracs.org/v2/?cmd=ver-publicacion&id=268) (SUNTRACS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUNTRACS): look for earlier posts on more about Panama's radical construction union) last August has continued, as a protest at Policlínica Hugo Spadafora in Colón turned deadly yesterday, according to the country's major newspapers and the SUNTRACS website.
SUNTRACS workers were protesting for safer working conditions and higher wages in the Caribbean coast's largest (and predominantly Afro-Panamanian) city, when police fired tear gas and then live rounds into the crowd. 28-year old Airomi Smith Rentería (some newspapers report his name as Iromy Smith) was killed.* Félix de León, 24, and Donaldo Pinilla, 28, were wounded, and they will survive. More than thirty more workers were arrested, though no police were wou....

bayano
28th February 2008, 16:00
theres another march scheduled for today, which ill be posting about on my blog