Haiti

Solidarity with the workers and people of Haiti

In fact a Batay Ouvriye representative, Yannick Etienne, also visited the UK on a No Sweat speaker tour in 2004. (There is a No Sweat speaker benefit for Haitian workers' organisations on 10 February: see here and Facebook event here . ) We hope to work with Liverpool TUC on this. Liverpool TUC motion Labour movement solidarity to the Haitian Labour movement A tragedy has deeply affected Haiti. The epicentre of the worst earthquake in Haitian history was near the capital of the country, destroying two thirds of Port-au-Prince. The situation is dramatic, three million homeless, over 100,000...

Policies pushed by global capital worsen Haiti disaster

Charles Arthur of the Haiti Support Group has issued this statement. The magnitude of this terrible tragedy is directly linked to the massive influx of people who have come to live in Port-au-Prince over recent decades. Hundreds of thousands of people have abandoned the countryside and come to capital to try and make a living. This human wave has overwhelmed the city and the rudimentary services that serve the city's population. The result is completely unregulated construction, poor or non-existent sanitation, a meagre supply of water, constant power outages, and the spread of poverty...

A workers’ answer to the food crisis

Last week thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh went on strike in protest at rising food prices. Factory workers earn as little as a $1 a day and have seen the price of rice increase by a third since last year. Some 30 million people in Bangladesh – nearly a quarter of the population — may be going without a daily meal. Food riots have taken place this year in Egypt, Haiti and Burkina Faso. The United Nations predicts that 33 countries in Asia and Africa face “political instability” as a result of food price rises. It says the global food bill has rise by 57% in the last year, with basic...

HAITI: Workers Protest Privatisation Layoffs

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=38646 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jul 24 (IPS) - Late last month, President René Préval announced that Haiti's public telephone company, Téléco, would be privatised. Meeting recently with the Haitian Chamber of Commerce and Senator Jean Hector Anacacis of Preval's Lespwa political party, the president finalised plans to sell off the aging enterprise. The move toward privatisation began abruptly, and according to Téléco, 2,800 employees have been terminated thus far. For decades foreign lenders and multinational corporations have pressured the Haitian state toward...

Haiti: Inquiétudes de la CTH face à la gestion du pays.

Port – au – Prince ; le 11 Juillet 2007 Communiqué de Presse Inquiétudes de la CTH face à la gestion du pays. Après la bataille démocratique qu’ont menée les travailleurs et le peuple haïtien avec leurs bulletins de vote aux élections du 7 février 2007 ; où ils ont accouché un gouvernement dans l’idée d’éradiquer le chômage, la misère et l’insécurité. Aujourd’hui , la CTH constate que les travailleurs et le peuple haïtien sont à bout de souffle ; au lieu que ce gouvernement prendrait des mesures concrètes pour mettre le pays sur les rails du développement en facilitant la création d’emplois...

Haiti: Labor Press Release on State Privatization

Port-Au-Prince; July 11, 2007 Press Release Concerns of the CTH, regarding the management of the Country. After the democratic battle, led by the Workers and the Haitian People through their voting ballots during the elections of February 7, 2007; where they gave birth to a government conceptually eradicating unemployment, poverty and insecurity. Today, the CTH notes that the Workers and the Haitian People are running out of breath; instead of this government taking concrete measures to put the country on the path of development, while facilitating the creation of employment, on the contrary...

Haiti: Privatization Plan Begins with Mass Firings at Téléco

Agence Haitïenne de Presse At least 500 Téléco workers received termination letters Friday as part of the government's announced plan to privatize the company. Another thousand are expected to be fired on Monday. As of last week, there were approximately 2800 workers remaining after the first wave of mass firings, as the government works to reduce the total number of employees to 800, according to several sources. These mass dismissals, which were expected in the wake of numerous statements by President René Preval and Téléco Director General Michel Présumé, come 10 days after the end of a...

Haiti: TELECO Employees Demand Compensation and Denounce Policy of Sabotage of Public Enterprises

Agence Haitïenne de Presse- Workers at the national telephone company Téléco said Monday that they will not accept payment of one year's compensation if they are to be fired from their jobs under the privatization plan announced by President René Préval. At the public utility's headquarters in Pont Morin, the employees who are united in their views continued their campaign seeking the dismissal of the director general Michel Présumé, whom they accuse of being opposed to negotiations. They said they are not opposed to privatization, nor are they able to prevent it. "However it is out of the...

Les activités reprennent sous conditions à la compagnie nationale de téléphone paralysée par une grève de 3 semaines

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...

Haiti: Pain at the Pump Spurs Strike Actions

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...

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