Tag Archives: Workers’ rights

Labor day Statement: CRIPDES denounces intimidation and threats by the government against organized labor

On Thursday April 28th, during a press conference, the Minister of Labor said that May 1st marchers will be relatives, collaborators or financiers of criminal groups or gangs of El Salvador.

Harvesting sugarcane – business of death

(ORIGINALMENTE PUBLICADO POR YSUCA)   Kimberly Vásquez would have turned 8 in August, but her body could not support the jugular catheter for dialysis that she kept for 11 months. Renal failure ended her life on March 23, 2020, in the midst of a pandemic. She was diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome at three years of […]

Salvadoran Workers March on Union Busting Owner’s House

The Trade Union Federation of Food, Beverage, Hotel, Restaurant and Agro Workers (FESTSSABHRA), the Salvadoran Union and Social Front (FSS), the Trade Union Confederation of Workers of El Salvador (CSTS), the Popular Resistance Movement of October 12 (MPR-12), U.S. – El Salvador Sister Cities, the International Union of Food Workers (IUF) and the Permanent Bureau […]

1 de mayo

MPR-12 International Workers Day Press Release

The Salvadoran Working Class is Ready for Another Historic Milestone in Our Struggle The member organizations of the Popular Resistence Movement of October 12th, the MPR -12, welcome the global working class, which we are a part of. We extend that greeting especially to the progressive and leftist political parties and governments, mainly in Latin […]

1 de mayo

60 Years After the General Strike in Honduras

‘May is the road to victory’ By Ramon Amaya Amador on April 15, 2014 This article was first published in Honduras in 1963 and was recently translated into English by Lucy Pagoada-Quesada. Amaya was a much-revered author and journalist whose novel “Prisión Verde” exposed the wretched conditions on the U.S.-owned banana plantations, where he worked as […]