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Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Massive Demonstrations in Puerto Rico
as Teachers Union Fights Austerity
with
Mercedes Martinez, Pres., Teachers Federation of Puerto Rico
(“FMPR”)
With the rejection by Congress of any meaningful measure for
debt relief despite the current deadline for almost $1 billion in
debt payment due on January 1st, and amidst wealthy
investors squeezing the cash-starved Island, unions in Puerto
Rican are bracing for any eventuality, from massive layoffs to
and including the possibly of a government shutdown. A
general strike is one of the responses being discussed by the
FMPR, one of the most militant unions in Puerto Rico. On
Nov. 17, 2015 the FMPR led a highly successful one day strike
against the colonial government's brutal austerity program,
and escalating attacks on hard earned workers’ rights,
including pensions and retiree medical benefits and efforts to
privatize the school system. The FMPR’s most recent action,
just thus this past week was a civil disobedience activity at the
Department of Treasury,against a pay cut in the form of denial
of a Christmas bonus due to all public workers. While the
colonial government says Cut Back the FMPR says Fight Back!
Plus
Puerto Rico's Economic Crisis:
Analysis, Alternatives and Solutions
with
Rafael Bernabe, candidate for Governor of Puerto Rico for
the Partido del Pueblo Trabajador (PPT) 2012; professor and
director of the Federico de Onís Hispanic Studies Center at
the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras; economist; and
who has published three books including “Puerto Rico:
Crisis y Alternativas”
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