Uruguay sees 24-hour general strike for education and health funding
FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 2018
TRADE union members in Uruguay staged a 24-hour nationwide general strike yesterday to press their demand for increased spending on education and health.
Thousands of workers took part in the stoppage as those affiliated to Uruguay’s Central Union of Workers urged MPs to vote for a budget that increases public spending to at least 6 per cent of GDP.
Uruguayan Federation of Teachers and Public Education Workers spokesman Elbia Pereira called for a needs budget and said the “ball is now in parliament’s court,” warning legislators against “denying their children and those of their neighbours a better education.”
As trade unionists gathered for a rally outside the Congress building in the capital Montevideo, Federation of Public Health Officials national president Martin Pereira said: “There are proposals on the table and we have to keep working; the government must understand that health and education are [a fundamental part] of the rights of the people.
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