Union leadership demands that Celac attend to labor conflicts

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Orlando Chirinos, national coordinator of the Labor Solidarity movement, signaled differences with what the government wants to show their Latinamerican counterparts (at Celac), where in Venezuela union leaders are persecuted, protests criminalized, and collective bargining is not discussed.

THe union organization counts more than 2000 labor conflicts in two years, with hunger strikes, with blood, stitching lips to the indifferance of the authorities to labor's claims.

Chirinos lamented that labor issues are absent from the agenda at Celac.

"Its a government that persecutes dissent, this is the government with which you are seated with today," he said at a press conference.

http://www.eluniversal.com/economia/111202/dirigentes-sindicales-demandan-a-la-celac-atender-conflictos-laborales