Solidarity wage workers continue to strike in Uruguay

Workers of the Jobs Program, created in 2021, in Uruguay continued another day of hunger strike on Friday to demand an extension of the program while awaiting a response from the executive.

The protesters, who have not eaten since Tuesday, are calling for the continuation of the work project, which will end next February and resume in May, without interruption to avoid having to return jobs.

In this sense, in order to extend the programme, it is necessary for the Executive to submit a Bill to Parliament, and for it to be approved by the two Houses of which it is composed.

Tents and solidarity workers strike paid. For the right to work. Montevideo, Uruguay. January 12, 2023 @PITCNT1 @canal5uruguay @employee @employee @employee pic.twitter.com/680fqXBxM8

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For her part, spokeswoman for the strikers, Karina Camacho, noted that the protest “has already begun to wreak some chaos, but it is our decision and it remains so.”

At the same time, he thanked the support of the unions that he supported by providing the infrastructure, noting that the government “the only thing that gave us solidarity is the name of the plan.”

In turn, striker Gabriel Gomez expressed that “what I would like to say to Lacalle at this moment, as a person, as a human being and as another charois, is that every human being has the right to work and be paid.”

Likewise, the demonstrators denounced the continued low salary of 10,600 pesos for the solidarity pay. But they pointed out that although it is not enough, it at least helps them not to die of hunger.