Puerto Rico's La Huelga del Pueblo

http://www.solidarity-us.org//node/1796
Date Written:  1998-09-01
Publisher:  Against the Current, Michigan, USA
Year Published:  1998
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX12888

AFTER FORTY DAYS on strike, several paros (one-day stoppages) in various government agencies and a two-day general strike, Puerto Rico's telephone workers have returned to work without attaining their objective: forcing the government to break its agreement to sell the state-owned Puerto Rico Telephone Company (PRTC) to a group of investors led by GTE.

Subject Headings

• Demonstrations, Marches, Protests
• Labour Movement
• Mass Action
• Mass Strikes
• Privatization
• Puerto Rico
• Strikes
• Strikes: United States