Solidarity Center Report: Peru Textile Workers Demand Factor Obey Labor Ruling
Friday, November 8, 2013(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
Peruvian textile workers are standing firm in their demands that a textile
company obey a recent Labor Ministry ruling requiring the company to transition
more than 1,000 workers to permanent job contracts. Since November 1, members of
the Hialpesa Workers’ Union have been reporting to work without signing fixed
(short-term) contracts. The Hialpesa textile factory is refusing to allow
workers who have not signed a new contract back to their jobs. Read more at
the Solidarity Center.