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COSTARICANEWS
| Saturday 28 August 2010 |
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Costa
Rica’s
Constitutional
Court
Restores
Limón
Port
Union
Leaders
Longshore
workers
in the
United
States
and
Costa
Rica are
celebrating
a ruling
by Costa
Rica’s
high
court,
the Sala
Constitucional,
that
restored
the
democratically
elected
leaders
of the
SINTRAJAP
l union
who had
been
ousted
in a
government-backed
illegal
union
election.
The
ouster
prompted
the
International
Longshore
and
Warehouse
Union’s
(ILWU’s)
Coast
Longshore
Division
to
charge
Costa
Rica
with
“serious
and
repeated
failures
by the
government
of Costa
Rica to
effectively
enforce
its own
labor
laws” in
an
18-page
complaint
with the
Department
of
Labor’s
Office
of Trade
and
Labor
Affairs
(OTLA).
“The
return
of the
legitimate
union
leadership
is a
victory
for
hard-working
people
everywhere,
who
count on
having
the
democratic
right to
join a
union
and
improve
their
standard
of
living,
ensure
their
safety
and
strengthen
their
communities,”
says
ILWU
President
Robert
McEllrath.
It’s an
important
step
forward
in the
never-ending
battle
to
protect
workers
from
forces
that
would
like to
return
to the
days
before
union
rights,
when
poverty
and
unsafe
working
conditions
in the
workplace
were
considered
an
acceptable
cost of
doing
business.
Despite
the
court’s
order,
it
remains
unclear
whether
or not
the
government
intends
to
respect
the
ruling.
The
decision
by Costa
Rica's
president
Laura
Chinchilla
may
define
the
Chinchilla
presidency
that
just
concluded
its
100th
day.
The road
ahead
will
likely
be long
but we
are
prepared
to
support
the
legitimate
SINTRAJAP
board in
their
fight to
keep
their
docks
safe and
productive,
and to
ensure
their
communities
keep the
good,
union
jobs
that
sustain
them.
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