Salvadoran Telecommunications Union Denied Recognition

The Salvadoran Labor Minister has rejected an application from telecommunications workers to grant them legal recognition as an industrial union, SUTTEL-SITCOM. The union states that the Ministry rejected the application in late May on spurious grounds and has appealed the decision. SUTTEL earlier fought a two-year battle to eventually achieve recognition as an enterprise union while also fighting against the privatization of the Salvadoran telephone company. The new application seeks to form an industrial union before further privatization of the telecommunications industry in El Salvador. At presstime, the union's appeal was still pending.

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