On Wednesday September 17, 2014, several sectors of Ecuador’s society spilled onto the streets to voice their opposition to the numerous reforms being driven by Rafael Correa’s leftwing Government. In fact almost 80 years after the Labor Code was enacted, the government is looking to replace it in order to adapt it “to today’s productivity demands”. Several areas of the new code are worrying the unions, especially the reform on the right to strike. The President is promoting new measures to protect women and the young.
A new Labor Code “adapted for today’s productivity demands”. Driven by the FUT (United Workers Front), the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador, and the Popular Front, the mobilization on September 17, 2014 with support from the opposition parties gathered together across the main cities in the country some several tens of thousands protesting (amongst other things) the creation of a new Labor Code which is soon due before the National Assembly. In fact the President, Rafael...
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