ARMENIA
Workers from the Ministry of Labor in Quindío held a cacerolazo yesterday, Tuesday, June 25, in the Plaza de Bolívar in Armenia since they have completed 26 days of indefinite unemployment and therefore there is no attention in any of the offices of the Ministry of Labor in the regions of the country, including Armenia.
And it is that with tapas, pots, pans, banners and megaphone in hand A group of employees gathered in the Plaza de Bolívar in Armenia as part of the national day of protest in the midst of the indefinite strike that is taking place in most of the headquarters of the Ministry of Labor in the cities of the country.
Rubén Darío Robayo Ortiz president of the Quindío Sectional Committee of the union of the Ministry of Labor He explained that “to date the minister has not met with the strike committee, we are not providing any service to the citizens, but It seems that the minister is still not interested in this, she is ignoring an obligation that she signed with her workers because we are demanding compliance with a collective agreement and so far nothing has happened, in 26 days of strike no solution has been presented, which is why the Strike Committee made this cacerolazo at the national level demanding compliance with the agreements.
Cacerolazo of workers of the Ministry of Labor in Armenia
The union leader added “among the main neurological issues we could say that there is salary leveling because this portfolio is below the salaries of the ministerial portfolios that carry out inspection, surveillance and control, there is a bonus that they should have paid us in the month of March and to date they have not canceled it, Some guarantees were required for the merit contest and to date they removed us from the contest violating due process and also issues not only of economic matters, but also of occupational health safety, there are facilities that do not comply with health safety regulations in work and us, that’s why we use the popular blacksmith’s knife, the wooden knife.”
What we want is to inform citizens that, as a portfolio, our mission, the Ministry of Labor, is to ensure fundamental rights, that we have all the work to ensure that we comply with individual labor guarantees, we as a ministry sanction the entities when you do not comply with the agreements and Today the question is for us, who sanctions us for this breach of agreement.
Rubén Darío Robayo Ortiz, president of the Quindío Sectional Committee of the Ministry of Labor union, explained “we have complaints were made to the ILO to the Attorney General’s Office, but to date nothing has happeneddespite all the efforts that we workers have taken in this urgent matter, that our labor rights be fulfilled and that our labor rights be vindicated and we continue to fight, as we say, until the government listens to us.
The cessation of activities in the Ministry of Labor in Quindío persists…
Unions of the Ministry of Labor in Quindío will remain on strike and demand direct dialogue (caracol.com.co)
