Wage negotiations off

[NewsWhore]

Though the business sector has maintained their offer of a 12% wage increase to the minimum wage, the workers' unions are calling the negotiations off and have announced an assembly for Saturday to create a strategy for the upcoming week. Hoy explains picketing, protesting, and scaled work stoppages will be among the tactics used by the unions. Union head Rafael Abreu said that the workers unions waited until yesterday for an offer from the business sector until they realized there would be no new offer. Unionists hoped that after Holy Week negotiations would continue but after 14 meetings and even the intervention of Vice President Rafael Alburquerque, Monsignor Agripino Nunez and Labor Minister Jose Fadul, the two parties have not been able to come to an agreement.

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