Killings of workers or union leaders are not new to the country and, indeed, there are reports of them for at least seven years, but the violence yesterday took a different profile in the south. Renny Rojas, Ferrominera worker was killed yesterday morning after being shot in the neck, while on a work assembly to be elected in an electoral commission to renew the union leadership of the core firm. Luis Guilarte, also Ferrominera, and Augustine Lezama (who, according to an official statement not working in that company) were injured during the incident. Read Article
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ElComercio.pe reports that about 70% of school children are beginning to work from five years of age. According to the NGOs Human Capital and Social Alternative (CHS) and La Restinga, the 70% of schoolchildren poor and work to help provide for their family. Some have had to drop out of school. In the last five […]
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Labor Minister Carlos Tomada presented today a National Plan for the Eradication of Child Labor and Protection of Adolescent Labor that was constructed by the National Commission for the Eradication of Child Labor (CONAETI) and national Provincial Committees. These institutions introduced the first National Plan in 2006, but have decided it is time to review […]
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According to RPP.com.pe the strike against mining concessions has caused a blockage in about 12 miles of the southern Pan American highway by residents of the Chucuito province. The blockage begins at the district of Zepita and ends at the boarder town of Desaguadero. The protesters have placed rocks and mounds of soil to prevent […]
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According to ElComercio.pe the regional government of Puno is hoping for discussions with Aymara, the Indians of the high plateaus, on the subject of mining. The government is hoping to avoid protests against mining concessions that were suspended last week due to the elections and will begin on Wednesday the 8th. The regional director of […]
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From El Economista: ● Unrest and violence on the northern border between Mexico and the US have negatively affected businesses, especially in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas ● The unrest has led residents of Texas to stop crossing the border to buy goods; business owners in Tamaulipas have decided to institute an “express service” and […]
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Argentine Federal Police rescued 2 minors and 30 undocumented Bolivian citizens working at an underground sweatshop today in Parque Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, per eltribuno.com.ar. Three people were arrested during the raids that found the Bolivians living and working in inhumane conditions. The workers, including two women ages 15 and 17, were brought into Argentina under […]
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According to LaHora.com, Non-Renewable Resources Minister, Wilson Pastor says that the government approved an initial amount of USD 5 million to reintegrate miners in Esmeraldas after illegal activity ceased their activity. In Zamora Chinchipe, where 46 families live off of illegal mining, now will be able to work with the state through the National Mining […]
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Lahora.com.ec reported at 9:30 in the morning of Wednesday June 1st, more than 600-armed soldiers entered the farming facilities of the community Patria Nueva in the Puembo sector of canton Pujili, seizing weapons (machetes) in a storage facility that previously contained cassava. Farmers demanded a warrant issued by a judge, but no warrant was ever […]
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A raid ordered by Federal Court No. 3 and performed by the Federal Public Revenue Administration (AFIP) in Paso Viejo, Córdoba found 34 unregistered workers, including women and 2 children, working in subhuman conditions collecting and processing olives on a rural farm. They were forced to live in a camp on the job site with […]
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Argentina is cracking down on slave labor according to Ricardo Echegaray of the Federal Administration of Public Revenue (AFIP). In a threatening message to the country last week, Echegaray says the AFIP will intensify their operation activities and promises to dress all slave labor employers in striped prison jumpsuits, according to upi.com. A recent investigation […]
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A study by the Escuela de Estadística de la Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR) – School of Statistics of the University of Costa Rica – reveals that there was an increase of four percentage points with respect to expectations in finding a job three months ago. But, that is of no comfort to many young […]
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An agreement between drugstore employees and corporate ended a strike that would have jeopardized medication supplies in Buenos Aires. According to eldia.com.ar, workers agreed to a 33% wage increase from May 2011 to July 2012. The compromise also includes a slight pay increase for the Convenio Colectivo de Trabajo 120 that corresponds with drugstore employees. […]
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Brazil’s environment agency Ibama has cracked down on deforestation – but in some regions it is on the rise again Illegal loggers, and ranchers who clear the forest for cattle unlawfully, are being targeted by Ibama, Brazil’s environmental protection agency. Read Article
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Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), May 20 (IANS/EFE) Some 400 police officers in this Mexican city have been dismissed since last October on suspicion they had ties to organised crime, Mayor Hector Murguia Lardizabal said. Read Article
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In a decade working as a nanny, Andreia Soares finally clambered up the ladder into Brazil’s middle class. Andreia Soares played with a child at her employer’s home. The training she has received has helped her command higher pay. With the money she saved, she bought a two-bedroom apartment with granite kitchen countertops and a […]
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The rage was proportional to the size of the crowd cornered between the jungle and the wall that will dam up the Madeira River in northwest Brazil. Over the space of three days, workers set fire to some 50 buses and other vehicles, work installations and even their own lodgings, which were built to house […]
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The global skills shortage is worsening, with more than one-third of companies reporting difficulties filling positions because of a lack of talent – the highest level in four years, according to a survey by ManpowerGroup, the recruitment company. Read Article
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They represent just seven percent of the workers building the Santo Antonio hydroelectric dam on the Madeira River, which cuts across the Amazon jungle in northwest Brazil. But the women workers total 1,200, and many of them have had to break down barriers to jobs seen as the preserve of men. Read Article
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Honduran teachers will take legal action against the Ministry of Education for the arbitrary suspension of 305 teachers who participated in protests in Feb and March. A team of lawyers will advise teachers to settle the issue in court, said Joel Almendarez leader of the Federation of Teaching Organisations of Honduras (FOMH). Read Article
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Striking workers at an Argentine silver-gold mine controlled by Hochschild Mining (HOCM.L: Quote) will go back to work on Wednesday after the government ordered compulsory conciliation, a union leader said on Tuesday. Read Article
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Before a new round of talks between the Labour Union Confederation (CGT) and the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA) begins in order to relaunch the social accord, the government expressed its support for lawmaker Hector Recalde’s bill that requires companies to distribute 10 percent of profits to workers. Read Article
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Colombia’s urban jobless rate, the most closely watched unemployment indicator, was 12.2 percent in March, almost flat versus the same month last year, the government said on Friday. Read Article
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Argentina’s Labor Ministry has acted to end a strike by energy workers in the southern province of Santa Cruz. Acting on a judicial order, the ministry suspended the leadership of the Private Petrol Trade Union, whose secretary general, Héctor Segovia, and adjunct secretary, Rubén Retamoso, are antagonists in an inter-union conflict over recent contract negotiations. […]
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Argentine union leaders have reached a deal to end a 24-day-old strike that has halted oil output in the Santa Cruz province, but workers must still approve the accord, a unionist said. Read Article
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Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez announced a 26.5 percent increase of the minimum wage to be implemented in two segments, namely a 15 percent increase from May 1, and then a 10 percent rise from September 1. Read Article
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Intercity bus drivers blame poor working conditions and union practices Poor working conditions, union practices and poor oversight are some of the allegations made on Monday the National Federation of Bus and Truck show the situation in which they perform intercity bus drivers. They said the union president Joseph Sandoval, to the serious road accidents […]
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Compania de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. (“the Company” or “Buenaventura”) (NYSE: BVN; Lima Stock Exchange: BUE.LM), Peru’s largest publicly-traded precious metals mining company announced today that operations resumed on April 25, 2011 at the Company’s operating unit Uchucchacua after the conclusion of a road blockage that initially started as a strike on April 4, 2011. This […]
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The members of the Mexican Electricians Union (SME) staged riots and various other acts of violence when confronted with riot police, burning vehicles, damaging facilities of the Commission Federal de Electricidad (CFE) and physically assaulting the parastatal workers, firefighters and representatives of media. Read Article
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Mexico’s undeserved stereotype for indolence is finally being chipped away, with a new study released this week finding that Mexicans work longer days than anyone else in 29 industrialized nations studied. Read Article
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Road Protection Directorate (Provial) confirmed the blockages in the 113 kilometers, 179 and 212 of the path southwest, in Cocales, Suchitepéquez, El Zarco, Retalhuleu, and Colomba, Quetzaltenango. There also is blocked at the border of El Carmen, Malacatán. In the highlands there is protest in Cuatro Caminos, mile 178, Totonicapán, and admission to Huehuetenango. The […]
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Honduran workers will go take to the streets on April 12 to protest the high cost of living and crime, union leaders announced Friday. The Unitary Confederation of Honduran Workers (CUT) called Thursday for the general strike to oppose higher prices for the basic family basket and continuing human rights violations, said Jose Luis Baquedano, […]
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Relations between the Movement to Socialism government and the country’s largest labor union have hit an all-time low today. The union (COB) bussed its members to La Paz yesterday and surrounded the Bolivian federal government buildings in a giant march, battling police and launching thunderous explosives (petardos). The COB was infuriated when the Bolivian government […]
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A 31 old man was apparently decapitated while working at the Maxima factory in Surquillo. The accident is under investigation According to initial reports, the subject was driving a forklift at the time of accident. Read Article
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A second person died Thursday following a clash between Peruvian police and protesters who were demonstrating against the stalled Tia Maria copper project owned by Southern Copper Corp. (SCCO), TV station Canal N reported. Read Article
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Ramírez, a member of the Union of Banana Workers of the northeastern province of Izabal, is seeking justice for the September 2007 killing of his brother Marco Tulio, who also belonged to the union. “No progress has been made” in the investigation of the murder,” he told IPS. Read Article
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Work has resumed at Bolivia’s largest silver mine, San Cristobal, following a 12-day strike, the union and operating company said on Monday. San Cristobal, which also produces zinc and lead, is the world’s third-largest producer of silver and the sixth-largest producer of zinc, according to Japan’s Sumitomo Corp (8053.T), which owns the mine. Read Article
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The members of the Magisterium of Honduras announced that they will resume their days of demonstrations against the privatization of education in the Central American country, after failing to reach any agreement on Thursday at the negotiating table that held behind closed doors with representatives of the Honduran Executive. Read Article
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Potosi – A group of Indians made a vigil at the mine Amayapampa demanding labor sources to benefit from financial resources generated by the gold deposit. The vigil began Tuesday morning and the top leaders moved to the seat of government in order to talk to the Mining Minister Jose Pimentel. Read Article
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As teachers continue to strike and protest in several of the country’s cities, a TV crew with opposition station Canal 36-Cholusat Sur said it was attacked by police while covering a protest on 25 March in Tegucigalpa in almost exactly the same way as a crew with the same station and a radio reporter were […]
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Eliminate immigration visas in Chiapas, asks J. Sabines, the governor of Chiapas. The governor of Chiapas, Juan José Sabines Guerrero, yesterday asked the Federation to address comprehensively the issue of migration in the southern border, including visas which is a central issue, with the possibility of elimination in the state, in order to they achieve […]
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One dead, 14 injured and nine arrested Wednesday left the repression of the national teachers’ protest in Honduras, three weeks ago rejected the privatization of education in the Central American country. “Teachers, students, parents, trade unionists, farmers nationwide protested against the privatization of education,” reported teleSUR collaborator in Honduras, Regina Osorio. Read Article
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An ongoing labor strike has forced Bolivia’s San Cristobal mine to halt output and exports of silver, zinc and lead, and the conflict will likely persist since company managers and union leaders have not begun formal talks. Read Article
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Honduran authorities should conduct a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation into allegations of excessive use of force by police to disperse teachers union demonstrations in Honduras and prosecute anyone found responsible, Human Rights Watch said today. Read Article
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Government authorized the intervention of the armed forces in support of the National Police, as part of protests against the mining project Tia Maria in Arequipa. Read Article
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The teachers strike in protest at the threat of privatization of education in Honduras began on Monday its fifth week in Honduras, while the Honduran government outlawed the strike and warned the protesters not to resume classes would be “suspended without pay salary. ” Read Article
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Minimum wage, no overtime pay and the Cape of snack time are the main allegations Ekono workers, who meet today 15 day strike. All labor problems that have occurred in the countries where Wal-Mart, which acquired control of D & S in 2009 – the largest retail company in the world, has branches. Read Article
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The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, called a general strike total failure of 48 hours that began on Monday the Central Obrera largest Latin American country to protest the wage inremento decreed 10 per cent last month, and is characterized by low attendance. Read Article
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Argentina’s top union boss, Hugo Moyano, late Friday called off a transportation strike set for next week that threatened to disrupt economic activity across the country. “We are suspending this measure we had planned for Monday,” Moyano said in a televised press conference, referring to the strike. Read Article
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After years of decline, the cooperative movement in Mexico is reviving as a relatively safe haven from the shocks of the neoliberal free- market model of production and the financial and food crises that have affected the country. “Cooperatives have had a positive impact on job creation, investment, education and health. They have helped drive […]
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Crowded into precarious mud-floored dorms or sheet-metal trailers or forced to live in tents of plastic sheeting, with neither piped water nor electricity, after working 14-hour days: these are the harsh conditions faced by hundreds of thousands of rural workers in Argentina despite bumper crops and record earnings for agribusiness. Read Article
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Paraguay’s airport workers said on Monday that they will make a six-hour strike in the three main terminals in the country, which will be the first protest against a bill promoted by the government concessions. Read Article
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Rio de Janeiro – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Tuesday on a popular television program that Brazil’s workforce needs more women. “I asked them to employ more women, but there is still a tendency to employ men. But I will not give up,” Rousseff said on the morning show “Mais Voce” on the local TV […]
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In the opinion of Elías Eljuri, the outcome shows statistic stability because a variation of 0.2 percent only was recorded between January 2010 and January 2011. Read Article
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A prominent trade union leader in Venezuela has been jailed for seven years over a strike in 2009 at the state iron ore mining company. Ruben Gonzalez was convicted of crimes including unlawful assembly, incitement, and violating a government security zone. Read Article
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The Mexican Miners’ Union (SNTMMSRM) reached a new two year collective agreement with Gammon Gold, ending an eight month long strike at the company’s mine in El Cubo, Guanajuato, Mexico, it was announced on February 23, 2011. Read Article
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A deal between Argentina’s government and teachers’ unions to raise the minimum wage for new part-time teachers by about 27% sets a precedent for teachers’ unions negotiating salary increases in provinces across the country, Stella Maldonado, head of the national teachers’ union, CTERA, said in a phone interview Wednesday. Read Article
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For many years children worked the gold mines of Nambija. Until in 1985 Father Stanislaw Wrobel slowly showed them the way out of the tunnels. Now Nambija boasts schools, businesses and a mining college. Child labor is as good as gone from the dangerous mines.
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Colombia’s textile and apparel makers saw sales plummet 13% to $6.1 billion last year from $7 billion in 2008. The loss of manufacturing jobs to cheap Chinese imports is raising howls of protest across Latin America. Read Article
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Mexico is facing what could be its worst coffee harvest in almost 20 years. Unseasonal rains and cold weather have resulted in a crop that is ripening at an uneven pace. These coffee-harvest anomalies are exacerbated by a shortage of labor at farms where workers, paid by the bucket, haven’t found enough coffee berries to […]
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While they’ve made strides in arresting illegals and building a fence along the U.S.-Mexico line, the Border Patrol only has “operational control” of 44 percent of the southern border, and of that only 15 percent is air tight, according to new General Accountability Office report. Read Article
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Antiriot police began assembling Wednesday in front of striking Colombian truckers, who for three days have been causing major traffic jams by setting up roadblocks on this capital city’s main arteries. The truckers’ strike, which began nearly two weeks ago over deregulation of the industry, involves the majority of some 200,000 Colombian truckers and is […]
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Argentine trade unions and grains exporters will meet for last-ditch wage talks on Wednesday to try to avert a new strike after workers last month blocked ports in one of the world’s top food suppliers. Read Article
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The Colombian Government has hinted that its suspension of new requests for mining concessions may last longer than the initial six months. The calls for stricter Governmental supervision came in early February after a series of accidents and explosions in 2010 and 2011. A recent explosion at La Preciosa mine killed at least 20 people; […]
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Honduran teachers announced that on Friday they will stage the first national strike of the current school year to demand their rights. The teachers decided to dedicate Fridays for strikes and meetings to claim for the payment of arrears, the defense of the teachers’ statute and the end of the privatization policies in the education […]
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Brazilian mining giant Vale SA (VALE, VALE5.BR) said Thursday that protesters closed the Carajas railroad Wednesday for more than five hours and continue to hold six workers hostage. Read Article
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Coca–Cola’s bottler in Venezuela says workers at a major plant have ended a strike after agreeing on a new contract. Coca–Cola Femsa de Venezuela SA says in a statement that the company has signed a new contract with workers at the bottling plant in the central–northern city of Valencia. Read Article
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One of the last survivors of the Indian indenture system in the Latin American country of Suriname is no more. Ninety-eight-year-old Goeroepersad Girbaran died in the Netherlands without being able to fulfil his lifelong dream – visiting the country of his forefathers. Goeroepersad was among the last Indian immigrants to arrive on a ship carrying […]
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In order to welcome hundreds of families with limited economic resources of the province, especially those who have been affected by migration, Canar Provincial Government implemented in May this year a production plant to market it horchata national level. Read Article
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A plant run by Heinz in the state of Carabobo, north central Venezuela, was shut down by workers, who demanded the signing of their collective bargaining agreement. Read Article
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday it was possible to “live without Coca-Cola” if the local bottler of the company’s products couldn’t follow “the constitution and the laws” of the country in dealing with striking workers. Read Article
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The Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations of the International Labor Organization (ILO) strenuously criticized the killing of union leaders, repression of demonstrations, restrictions on the right to strike, and detentions of union and business leaders in recent years in Venezuela, as mechanisms which impair the freedom of association. Read Article
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Effect of violence on tourism brings new threat to the insect’s survival A soft afternoon sunlight cuts into a chilly forest of firs that provides winter haven for tens of millions of monarch butterflies. As their forebears have for time beyond memory, these monarchs have traveled as much as 3,000 miles, from across much of […]
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The indefinite nationwide strike is called by the Colombian Truckers Association (ACC) to require the Government to keep the freight sector regulation. “We have a 90 per cent of the fleet kept,” said general secretary of the ACC, Ricardo Virviescas, for whom the call to cease its activities was taken in all regions of the […]
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A major Argentine port slowly began reopening after an eight-day industrial strike paralyzed the important hub, officials and union sources said. “The picket lines are gone,” a union organizer who declined to be identified told AFP, after talks with the government began over wage hikes. Read Article
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Doctors of the School Hospital in the capital of Honduras continue the work stoppage to demand wage increases and other socio-economic demands. The strikers call on health authorities to improve conditions in hospitals, to install new modules in the laboratories and to redistribute working sessions. Read Article
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The mayor of the municipality of Antioquia Briceño, in northern Antioquia, from today shall notify the voluntary evacuation order about 300 people who claim to be mines and farms which recently reached the Pescadero Ituango hydro apparently motivated by compensation to be gained from Macroproyecto.Read Article
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Spiralling violence against Central American migrants in Mexico has prompted legal reforms, diplomatic actions, and the creation of new mechanisms to protect citizens in this region. Read Article
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Argentine workers will comply with a government order to call off a wage strike in key grains ports that has disrupted exports and crushing for a week, a union leader said on Wednesday. Read Article
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A pay strike at key Argentine grains ports that is disrupting exports from one of the world’s biggest food suppliers could worsen if it is not resolved soon, a union leader said on Monday.
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The police chief and all 38 police officers of a northeastern Mexican town have quit following a series of drug cartel attacks, including the decapitation of two of their colleagues. Read Article
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A United Steelworkers union official was jailed in Mexico en route to a meeting with the Mexican National Union of Mine, Metals, Steel and Related Workers (Los Mineros) to discuss the four-year strike at Grupo Mexico SA de CV’s Cananea copper mine in northern Mexico, the USW said Thursday. Read Article – Subscription Required
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A total of 100,000 illegal Honduran citizens are going through the Mexican national territory to the USA, according to the last data published by the National Forum for Migration (FONAMIH), a non-governmental organization. There is information on a little more than 1,000 and only 340 people are correctly documented, but there is not any information […]
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It took María de los Ángeles Carrillo, a native craftswoman from Mexico, eight months to weave a decorative junco reed basket, for which she won an 8,000 dollar prize from the Mexican government. The 32-year-old Carrillo, a member of the Kumeyaay Native American people, belongs to the Grupo de Artesanos Nativos de Baja California (Group […]
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About 60,000 Central American undocumented immigrants enter Mexico each year, most of them from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, official sources said on Monday. The undocumented enter Mexican territory mainly by the Soconusco and Coast zone, bordering Guatemala, said Andrea Hernandez, Chiapas’ director for Southern Border Development and Communication for the International Cooperation. Read Article
Welcome to chaos. The tourists began their holiday, thousands of them just arrived from the city of Buenos Aires, they met an old acquaintance here all year, the picket line. This time in the hands of lifesavers who, in the wage claim, cut access to the beaches of Punta Mogotes amid a major scandal. Read […]
The government of Bolivia has passed a new pension law that reduces the retirement age for most men to 58 from 65, in stark contrast to many other countries which are seeking to hike the retirement age in order to deal with climbing life expectancy rates. Read Article
An inspection of 1.826 firms throughout Costa Rica by the Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social (MTSS) – Labour Ministry – reveals that 39% of businesses do not pay minimum wages. Read Full Article