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Weekly Report - 09 December 2010 (WR-10-49)

URUGUAY: Strikers will soon be spreading beach towels

“Strikes come and go," President José Mujica confidently claimed in the midst of multi-sector labour unrest this week. “Budget and salary debates always kick up a tremendous fuss and then it's summer and everyone goes to the beach," he quipped. Mujica, a political veteran, has good reason not to be rattled: a poll released last week showed his approval rating is on the rise, suggesting that the strikes and protest actions over salaries by a dozen different trade unions lack public support. But, behind his dismissive rhetoric, he will also know that the protests are about more than just the budget and salaries: they are about the ambitious state reform proposals he is trying to push through to reduce bureaucracy and inefficiency.

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