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UNI Americas Colombia took advantage of this protest day to denounce violations of human, union and labor rights that continue taking place in this country. Workers and leaders of the telecommunications, finance, graphical and packaging, and private security sectors, among others, denounced the national and multinational companies that continue committing abuses of all types against workers, exhorting them to comply with the Global Agreements signed with UNI and sign Agreements where there are none.



The demonstrators as a mass expressed their repudiation of the anti-union practices that reign in the companies, which can be mainly seen in the implementation of the so-called “Collective Agreements”; the enormous delays imposed by the arbitration courts; the use of hiring forms such as worker cooperatives, instrumentally used to avoid the establishment of unions.



“The union movement, which today expressed itself in a single voice, wants the government to heed the claims of the workers, both men and women, and take the Labor Agenda into account. It is through this that we demand the formalization of jobs, social security, the cessation of anti-union violence, and the full right to collective bargaining,” declared Leonor Sierra, coordinator of UNI work in Colombia.



Colombia is the country with the greatest risk in the region for union activity; over the last 20 years 2768 unionists have been assassinated, of which 10% were women. And to date justice has not been served.



UNI and UNI Americas, together with Colombian men and women workers once again demand an end to impunity and the right for Colombian workers to exercise their political and union rights free of fear.



Long Live May 1^st!!!