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On 20 April 2013 in Asuncion, Paraguay, a delegation represented by Marvin Largaespada from UNI America, Eligio Brittez, Jose Vazquez and Roberto Florentin from the Paraguayan trade union SITEPROPASA met with MEP Andres Perello Rodriguez, Vice President of the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly, member of the Spanish Socialist Delegation and of the European Parliament Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. Aim of the meeting was to provide an update regarding the lawsuits and legal proceedings against Prosegur Paraguay for the massive layoffs of 327 employees.



In September of 2012 UNI had already denounced the situation with the European Parliament in a public hearing organised by the S&D group (Socialists and Democrats). The meeting of April 20th was a continuation of that effort, since at that time the group committed to support steps taken by UNI to file a complaint to the ILO. The complaint was finally sent to the ILO on October 30th and communicated to the Paraguayan Government on March 4th whose reply was due one month later but up to date did not occur.



The MEP said that the S&D will continue to support this legitimate cause as well as the demands of the dismissed workers with a view to restore justice and preserve labor and trade union rights whose violations has been perpetrated now for 9 months, they fully support the Complaint with the ILO. “As a group of MEPs, we can not allow European companies and especially Spanish ones to violate national and international labour rights in Paraguay, we will bring these claims to instances where economic issues are discussed so as to ask for the respect of labour and trade union rights, he said.