#Labor Day In #Ecuador 🇪🇨
Ecuadorians March for Safety, Work and Life. They are demanding the resignation of President Guillermo Lasso.
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— Adriana Robreno 🇨🇺 (@adrianarobreno) May 1, 2023
This May Day is taking place against the background of a deep political, economic and ethical crisis, while crime has swept the country like never before, said the President of the Workers’ United Front (FUT), Marcela Arellano, in statements to Latin Press.
In his opinion, this situation affects the working class first of all, and that is why they demand not only labor rights, “but a state at the service of the people”.
There is an urgent need to change course because neoliberalism has currently left all workers vulnerable and this banker president (lasso) wants a new labor law that protects nobody and is an attack on workers’ rights, he told Arellano.
The way out of this crisis is the resignation of the current president because we need a national agreement with someone who adapts and engages in dialogue with citizens, the union leader assured.
In dialogue with this agency, the President of the National Union of Educators (UNE), Isabel Vargas, supported the National Assembly (Parliament)-sponsored impeachment process against the Chief Executive.
The President is helping businessmen and bankers while affirming that there are no resources for school infrastructure, violence elimination, or other areas of social importance, Vargas said.
The march in Quito began on the outskirts of the headquarters of the Ecuadorian Institute for Social Security (IESS) – an institution that defends workers against attempted demolitions – and ended with an action in the Plaza de San Francisco in Quito’s historic center of the capital.
Participants carried placards with phrases against President Lasso, in defense of the IESS, opposed to the privatization of strategic areas and in favor of workers’ rights.
In other cities, such as Guayaquil, mobilization focused on criticizing the president’s leadership amid rising insecurity as the violent death rate hit 25 per 200,000 people last year and appears to be higher in 2023 than the current homicide rate.
We demand that they take care of education, health and job creation, which are the reasons for criminal organizations to recruit young people precisely for economic reasons, the UNE chief said.
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