In Costa Rica, the Congress approved in first debate a bill that authorizes employers to suspend, from the first day of demonstration, the payment of wages to public sector workers who are on strike.
The Legislative Assembly voted in the first debate on file 21049, a law to provide legal security about the strike and its procedures, which seeks to eliminate the exaggerated privileges that employees of state entities have when they decree and execute a strike in the public sector, the Legislative Assembly informed on Tuesday, September 3.
Only 1.6% of the economically active population is affiliated with a labor union.
Details of a report by the Association for Research and Social Studies (Asies) indicate that in 2010 the total membership of unions was 92,877, of which 77,394 belonged to state institutions.
Elperiodico.com.gt quotes Luis Linares, assistant secretary of Asies, who argues that "This low rate of unionization has resulted in few workers having access to negotiations with their employers."