Nov 3, 2009 | Posted by: Upfront Yankee
Coalition warns of another general strike - Caribbean Business - 02/11/09
Full story: www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com
The Todo Puerto Rico por Puerto Rico Coalition on Monday issued an ultimatum aimed at Gov. Luis Fortuño: Reverse the layoffs of more than 16,000 government workers or face another general strike.
“If we don’t receive a clear intention from the Fortuño administration to stop the firings, the Todo Puerto Rico Por Puerto Rico Coalition will call the Puerto Rican people to take part in a general strike,” said Lutheran Bishop Felipe Lozada, a spokesman for the coalition of labor, religious and civic organizations.
The reverend said the coalition began Monday to hold work meetings at the municipal level to establish strike committees.
The Fortuño administration announced in late September the dismissal of more than 16,000 government workers in the second and final round of layoffs under Law 7, the package of belt-tightening and revenue measures passed earlier this year to help close a $3.2 billion budget deficit, pare $2 billion in public spending annually and protect Puerto Rico’s credit from a downgrade to junk status. Nearly 4,000 jobs were cut in an initial round of dismissals announced in May.
The bulk of those layoffs are scheduled to take effect on Friday, which labor leaders and other coalition members have dubbed “el viernes de la infamia,” or the “Friday of Infamy.”
Lozada urged islanders to voice opposition to the firings Friday at noon by honking their automobile horns, stopping their vehicles in the streets, wearing black clothes and ringing church bells
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I wonder how many Puerto Ricans will wear black on Friday.
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Fortuño ought to employ the hundreds of thousands of workers, unemployed in Puerto Rico.
Why should we, the taxpayer who pays public employees, ignore those fired (non unionized) by the private sector? Every single argument, applied to any unemployed govt. worker, applies to them, also. Jorge |
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With this heat? You gotta be kidding. |
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Thank you Jorge...I lost my job in PR, and it was in the private sector, and no one cared, or wore black. |
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It would be a serious exposition (on behalf of our organized labor movement) to denounce the island's economy (and its impact on employment). But, as they currently stand, the labor movt. is using the issue, as a political "balloon". Jorge |
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Entonces,?que va hacer Puerto Rico, nadar o hundirse? Hay que hacer grandes sacrificios para sequir adelante. |
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Please, expand! No entiendo. |
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YEAH!!! Doesn’t the Governor know that money is free? Washington can send us money anytime, all the gracious politicians up north can just print some more. So what if Puerto Rican politicians are spending us into poverty. Why don’t we use the stimulus money, we all know there is plenty where that came from? Our children can take care of these problems later. They’re not going to leave the island when their taxes go sky high, they won’t leave when the private sector jobs leave. Uncle Sam will help them just like he helped us.
A mi no me importa donde venga el dinero o las consecuencias de mi egoísmo. El futuro de esta isla esta segura porque los residentes de mañana no van a mudarse. Nuestros niños prefieren quedarse pagando impuestos extravagante y si no hay dinero o trabajos en el sector privado siempre pueden ir a Tío Sammy que cuidó a sus padres. |
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Tío Sammy no dá uno sino saca tres, a cambio. Por eso es el tío más rico del mundo. |
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LOL wearing black is so appropriate. They are mourning the death of sanity in their own ranks.
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Judged: 
1 Who told them to go "radical". These people use the issue as a political ball, and there you have the results. They got entangled in their own web... Who advised our labor movt. to turn these "firings" into a "class struggle" (rich vs. working)? What are religious leaders, mixed, in this "salad"? Who invited the politicians and the opposing party (to the one in power)? An otherwise, powerful message got completely distorted. Jorge de P.Rico Our "social revolutions" are held every 4 yrs. in the ballots. |
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...strike or no strike, all you loafers and socialist remora need to go find a job and provide for your self ,family and our country, striking won't pay the bills or put food on your table or keep the roof over your head, grow up , quit b tching like a baby. Deal with it..
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