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1-300,000 workers strike in Colombia
(November 1st, 2001)
Colombia, Nov. 1st---Last thursday's (Nov. 1st) protest in Bogota, according to DJ, did not have the strength expected. 600'000 workers were expected to strike but only 300'000 actually joined the 24 hours "huelga".
The reasons of the strike were the low percentage of employement (17,8% of the active population in Colombia was jobless at the end of September 2001) and the september's reforms proposed by the government were not accepted by the syndicates.
Carlos Rodriguez, general secretary of the CUT, Colombia's Confederation of syndicates, said that "we are on strike because we are very worried about the unemployement crisis in Colombia."
On the Bogota's mayor side, he claimed that the strikes had little impact. This is, according to him, because the population remained "civilized" and that the transportation kept going. Analysts agreed on this last claim saying that the decision of not striking by the bus and taxi drivers, taken last week, really weakened the worker's strength. Without them, specialists claimed, the strike can not have a real impact on the general economy.
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