Another purpose of the protest is to reject the decision of the new Comptroller General, Dorothy Perez, to prevent contract workers, if they are dismissed, from being able to complain to the Comptroller General and force them to resort to the courts.

Today there is a latent instability towards State workers, since they lost the only tool provided by the Comptroller General’s Office to be able to file a complaint against an unjustified dismissal’, CUT president David Acuña said.

Acuña called on the government to listen to their claims and on the parliamentarians to respect public labor, and warned that “we will never again back down in our rights.”

The leader of the workers’ federation also criticized the position of some opposition legislators who anticipated their rejection of a salary readjustment of 7.5 percent nominal and three percent real, when it has not even been presented.

The call for a strike includes all wage earners in the country, but above all State employees, and further mobilizations are not ruled out if there are no answers to their demands.

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