Salvadoran social movement rejects new proposal to increase export crops such as sugar cane, pineapple and African palm oil.

The right-wing administration of Presdient Nayib Bukele is moving quickly to dismantle the public sector in El Salvador – and the unions that defend it.

On September 4, the new Minister of Labor notified the Salvadoran Social Security Institute Workers’ Union (STISSS) that the government would no longer recognize their Executive Board, which was democratically elected in December 2018.

Social movement leaders identify parallels between Bukele administration and those of other neoconservative and authoritarian governments in the region

To our members, the organized labor movement, the working class, the Salvadoran people, and the international community, we DECLARE: that the arrival of the United National Collective of Workers (UNTRAC) to the Executive Board of the Union of Workers of the Salvadoran Social Security Institute (STISSS) was thanks to an effort of unity in action and struggle and which has overcome many difficulties in order to stay.

The Bukele Administration is attempting an illegal takeover of the Salvadoran Social Security Institute Workers' Union (STISSS), the country's largest union.

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