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Weekly Report - 12 September 2019 (WR-19-36)
COSTA RICA: Unions back on the streets
A law which would “limit the right to strike and weaken democracy”. These are the claims made by Costa Rica’s teachers’ unions Asociación Nacional de Educadores (Ande) and Asociación de Profesores de Segunda Enseñanza (Apse) which last week staged protests in the capital, San José, over a proposed bill which is being discussed in the 57-member unicameral legislature. The protests once again illustrate discontent with the centre-left Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC) government led by President Carlos Alvarado on the part of unions which have previously staged demonstrations over the government’s controversial fiscal reform.
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