translated from Spanish: CUT called on entrepreneur to respect workers’ right to vote

The president of the United Workers’ Headquarters (CUT), Barbara Figueroa, called on the entrepreneur to respect the right to vote for workers and to provide facilities for their participation in Sunday’s Plebiscite.” Rather we call them to take care of their own people, to take care that today the worst campaigns of terror are being carried out by workers, the need to guarantee the total indispensable holiday for trade workers has been pointed out more than two months ago,” Figueroa said at a press point. , that “today is not guaranteed and we therefore have workers in different sectors of the productive field who are having obstacles to participate this Sunday of the vote.” That does seem like a campaign of terror to us. It cannot be that despite the persistent requests we have made and the various calls from different sectors to this day we have no guarantee that all workers will be able to participate in this electoral process,” he added. According to Figueroa’s point, “we also call on responsibility, that no pressure is exerted here on workers so that they can exercise their vote freely and the legitimate right to be able to set some preference and that this is not violated by possible calls from employers to give more or less guarantees of going to vote or job stability.” For the same reason, Figueroa called for the respective complaints in the event that the right to vote in the Plebiscite on Sunday 25 October is violated.

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