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International Worker / Issue 06 Tuesday 4 Apr 2006

Andrés Olivetti: “The Government is trying to build a National Cause in defense of the multinationals and imperialism”
Interview with the trade-unionist Andres Olivetti, by Afutu (Asociación de Funcionarios de la Universidad del Trabajo de Uruguay ) on Radio Centenario (CX36), Montevideo, February 2. “The Government is trying to build a National Cause in defense of the multinationals and the empire and in this logical sense is aiming its guns against all the mobilizations in Argentina. So, the fact that the PIT-CNT (national workers trade union confederation), <!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> Journalist : Let’s go to the subject of the paper mills. A.O. There is a resolution of the PIT-CNT´s Eighth Congress that backs the decision taken by the District Trade Unions Assemblies of Soriano and Rio Negro, opposed to the construction of the paper mills, it is approved unanimously by the 2003 Congress, the last PIT-CNT Congress, that was vote… Read more

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International Worker / Issue 03 Tuesday 2 Aug 2005

Triumph of the occupation of the Lorsinal meat packing plant
The occupation of the Lorsinal meat packing plant, led by the brand new trade union Fademm, stopped the slave-driving bosses in their tracks. The hard resistance and obstinacy that emerged as mobilization, collections on the highway, coordination with the “inter-social” Northern Zone, where slogan painting and agitational expeditions were organized in the neighborhood, the radio La Voz FM (The Voice FM) transmitting live from the plant itself, … Read more

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International Worker / Issue 03 Tuesday 2 Aug 2005

Working class demands and mobilizations on the rise
T he Uruguayan working class has begun to manifest, through a series of demands and mobilizations, its impatience in the face of the pro-IMF policies of the center-left government. On June 30 a partial general strike was held, convened by the trade union confederation , PIT-CNT. Some teachers unions struck for 24 hours. The general strike was an expression —very deformed-- of the tendency of sectors of the working class towards a struggle for de… Read more

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International Worker / Issue 03 Tuesday 2 Aug 2005

URUGUAY
Frente Amplio vs. the piqueteros
Workers to center-left minister (see Workers Tribune headline below): "Don't complain later when we start setting up roadblocks" U pon taking office last March, the government of the Frente Amplio-Espacio Progresista-Nueva Mayoría (Broad Front-Progressive Space-New Majority) of Uruguay started off as it had promised: with a feroicious “adjustment” against working people. It announced a cut of 10% in public investment, and price hikes of … Read more

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