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Caribbean & Central America - August 2015 (ISSN 1741-4458)
COSTA RICA: Public sector strikes over privatization and threats to salary
Around 12,000 public sector workers took to the streets of San José on 27 July to protest against plans to increase the participation of the private sector in the country’s energy markets. Marchers were also motivated by a recent debate over public sector wages, following widely reported claims that many of their salaries are much higher than those working in the private sector.
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