Bogota airport workers strike; more delays than usual reported
Some 300 workers at Bogota’s El Dorado airport have gone on strike, local media reported Monday. The strike reportedly has not led to a significant increase in flight delays.
Some 300 workers at Bogota’s El Dorado airport have gone on strike, local media reported Monday. The strike reportedly has not led to a significant increase in flight delays.
The Colombian government continues to ignore major human rights violations, raising serious doubts about Colombia’s readiness for free trade agreements, claimed Colombia’s largest trade union on Wednesday. “We declare that…
On Monday January 28, a week after U.S. President Barack Obama officially began his second term, 100 workers protested in front of Colombia’s Ministry of Labor offices throughout Colombia. In…
Public service workers in Colombia’s capital Bogota have begun to strike in the early hours of Thursday claiming they have not been payed for six weeks, local media reported. Employees for Aguas…
Pacific Rubiales, the largest foreign oil company in Colombia, created their own in-house labor union in attempts to cut the legs out from under the USO, Colombia’s national oil workers…
Colombia’s embassy in Brussels has unveiled a document spelling out the government’s commitment to labor rights and its vow to protect union members, two things the European Union had deemed…
Canadian oil company Pacific Rubiales is threatening to fire Colombian workers who join labor unions, a local NGO said Wednesday. In an interview with radio station W, a spokesman of…
A group of dissatisfied judicial workers vote to continue a mass strike, which began on October 11, ignoring an agreement reached with the government, according to local media Monday. While…
Colombia’s national government on Tuesday expressed fierce criticism over striking judicial workers, saying that “while soldiers and policemen are risking their lives, others are striking.” The comment was made by…