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Saturday, October 17, 2009
100,000 Workers March To Protest Puerto Rico Job Cuts
October 15, 2009 - 2:33pm
By Doug Cunningham
Tens of thousands of people marched in San Juan, Puerto Rico Thursday demanding that plans to slash the budget deficit on the backs of workers be cancelled.
The AFL-CIO expressed solidarity with its brothers and sisters in Puerto Rico, joining the call for Puerto Rico's government to cancel the budget cuts while also rescinding Public Law #7, which eliminated collective bargaining for public workers.
Puerto Rico's governor has been given $5 billion in federal stimulus money that workers there are demanding be used to keep people working.
Labor unions are calling for an island-wide strike and a march near the capital to protest government layoffs in Puerto Rico, where more than 20,000 public employees have been dismissed as the island struggles to pull out of a three-year recession.
At least 100,000 protesters converged on Plaza las Americas, the Caribbean’s largest shopping center, in the biggest of several demonstrations across the U.S. territory, according to organizers.
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