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Port-au-Prince le 28 juin 2007 (AHP)- Les employés de la compagnie nationale de téléphone (Téléco) ont repris leurs acitités jeudi à la suite d'une grève de 3 semaines pour protester contre des décisions jugées arbitraires prises par le directeur général de l'institution, Michel Présumé, dont la révocation d'employés, dans le cadre de la privatisation prochaine de la Téléco. Cette grève a pris de nouvelles dimensions à la suite du refus de dialogue qu'aurait opposé M. Présumé aux responsables du syndicat qui allaient reclamer son renvoi. Les employés ont également endurci leur mouvement suite...

By: Jeb Sprague and Wadner Pierre PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jun 19 (IPS) - A two-day transport strike last week gripped Haiti's major cities and underscored a mounting crisis over fuel prices, which rose nearly 20 percent in just two weeks. On Jun. 12 and 13, transport workers shut off their engines, leaving residents of Port-au-Prince and other urban centres largely without the services of taxis or the colourful buses and pick-up trucks known as tap-taps. A spokesperson for the Initiative de Secteur de Transport, an ad hoc strike committee representing 18 transport unions, Benissoit Duclos, said the...

Port-au-Prince, le 12 juin 2007 &endash; (AHP)- La grève de 48 heures lancée par des syndicats de chauffeurs a paralysé ce mardi le transport en commun à Port-au-Prince et dans la plupart des villes de province. Cette grève visant à protester entre autres contre les nouvelles hausses des prix du carburant et contre l'obligation faite aux propriétaires de véhicules de payer 4 années d'arriérés de vignettes, coïncide avec la tenue des examens pour les candidats de la 6ème annnée fondamentale. C'est d'allleurs la princpale réserve exprimée sur l'organisation de ce mouvement. Les tap-tap et les...

By: Wadner Pierre - HaitiAnalysis.com Port-au-Prince- On November 18, 2006 Haitian grassroots human rights organizations came together to found a coalition. CONODDH (National Coordination of Organizations Defending Human Rights) explains that it is a grouping of organizations all with deep experience working in the field of human rights. CONODDH has declared its independence of any religious or political affiliation. The registered office of CONODDH is temporarily installed in Port-Au-Prince, but its seat can be transferred at any moment to any place in Haiti. At the November press conference...

Port-au-Prince, October 23, 2006 (AHP); Several thousand people, largely supporters of Fanmi Lavalas, demonstrated Monday in the streets of Port-au-Prince to ask the government authorities to work to re-hire the workers who were dismissed from the civil service by the interim government of Gérard Latortue They said they voted for René Préval with the expectation that their living conditions would improve. "As Aristide isn't here, it was normal that we would vote for somebody we know well, but our hopes thus far have been disappointed", said the demonstrators. Other demonstrators said they...

Cap-Haïtien, August 2, 2006 (AHP); The government workers in Cap-Haitian who were terminated declared Wednesday that they are setting a deadline of August 14 for the Haitian authorities to return them to their previous positions and pay them all back wages due since the day they were dismissed. During a news conference, the workers said they were at the end of their rope and don't know where to turn to provide for the needs of their family members. "After the deadline, we will move to another stage in our struggle to obtain satisfaction for our demands," they threatened. Several hundred people...

Hilaire Prophete, Spokesman for Pa Ka Tann Operation (OPK), reiterates the demands for the reinstatement of former public administration employees, thousands of who were laid off for political reasons by the Interim government of Gerald Latortue (2004-2006). The Latortue government worked closely with IMF and World Bank bureaucrats to lay off workers hired under the Aristide government, which drastically hurt the ability of the Haitian state to provide the limited services it had prior. Many of the laid off workers supported the constitutional government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide (2001-2004)...