Global Unions Condemn Murders of Honduran Union Leaders

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/04/28/global-unions-condemn-murders-of-honduran-union-leaders/

by James Parks, Apr 28, 2008

The global union movemnent is strongly protesting the murder of Rosa Altagracia Fuentes, the general secretary of the Workers’ Confederation of Honduras (CTH), trade union leader Virginia García de Sánchez and motorcyclist Juan Bautista Gálvez.

The three were killed early morning on April 24 on the highway between El Progreso and San Pedro Sula by six masked persons, according to eyewitness acccounts. Altagracia Fuentes was shot 16 times.


Rosa Altagracia Fuentes

In a strongly worded letter (in Spanish) to Honduran President José Manuel Zelaya Rosales, Guy Ryder, general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), called for

a full investigation to establish, as quickly as possible, the motives for the murders and identify those materially and intellectually responsible for these crimes, to punish them with the full weight of the law.

The ITUC represents 168 million workers in 155 countries and territories and has 311 national affiliates, including the AFL-CIO.


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