GREX denounces the regime's repression and labor blackmail on Labor Day in Nicaragua
"They are worse than ever." GREX denounces repression, labor blackmail, and mandatory deductions against workers in Nicaragua this May 1st. They point to political control, loss of rights, and increasingly precarious conditions.
TL;DR
- GREX denounces repression and blackmail of Nicaraguan workers by the Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo regime on May 1st.
- Workers, particularly the informal sector (75% of the economically active population), face precarious conditions, arbitrary labor laws, and a lack of basic rights.
- State employees are subjected to mandatory political deductions (2-10%) and forced affiliation with the FSLN through red and black scarves, under threat of dismissal.
- GREX calls for the restoration of freedom of thought and organization for workers, an end to political persecution, and urges Nicaraguans to organize to dismantle the regime.
- The regime's actions are described as fascist, aiming to control attitudes and thoughts through fear, threats, surveillance, imprisonment, exile, and banishment.