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Ronaldo Blear was overwhelmingly reelected as Secretary General of the SINTRAJAP dockworkers union after the Costa Rican government helped install a sham leadership last year. [NOTE: The following excerpt is from an interview between Costa Rica's Tico Times and Ronaldo Blear, the recently reelected leader of the SINTRAJAP dockworkers union. The ILWU Coast [...]  Coast Longshore Division supports dockworkers and their unions Published in the Coast Longshore Division Newsletter, Winter 2010 issue. In the past year, the Coast Committee has become increasingly involved in regional solidarity through direct support of dockworkers in Latin America. Latin American dockworkers are seeing the social contracts that they have with their governments systematically [...] The Costa Rican government vowed to replace the union longshore workforce in Limón with one that "has absolutely no relationship with collective bargaining agreements or unions." The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Coast Longshore Division had condemned the Costa Rican government for disrupting democratic processes relating to leadership of Sintrajap. The ILWU’s charges [...] The ILWU Coast Longshore Division published ads in Costa Rican newspapers supporting the democratically elected union leaders. The ouster of democratically elected leaders of the SINTRAJAP union prompted the International Longshore and Warehouse Union’s (ILWU’s) Coast Longshore Division to charge Costa Rica with “serious and repeated failures by the government of Costa Rica to [...] The Constitutional Branch of the Supreme Court (Sala IV) threw a curveball at the Limón revitalization project this week, when it called for the reinstallation of the former leadership of the Atlantic Port Authority’s union (Sintrajap). Since the former leadership of Sintrajap was ousted in January by the union’s general assembly – a move deemed [...] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 26, 2010 CONTACT: Jennifer Sargent, 503-703-2933 ILWU President calls high court’s order ‘an important step forward in the never-ending battle to protect workers’ rights Ronaldo Blear, General Secretary of SINTRAJAP SAN FRANCISCO, CA (August 26, 2010) — Costa Rican longshore workers are celebrating yesterday’s ruling in their country’s Constitutional Court [...] [English Summary: The title, "Caribbean Coast Ports would be less competetive in private hands" is well supported in this article from El Pais, a national Costa Rican newspaper. The labor coalition ANEP (the National Association of Public and Private Employees) has uncovered government documents revealing that privatization of the ports of Limón and Moín would [...] |
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