A vehicular chaos was registered this Thursday morning when several access points to the metropolitan area of the city were blocked, as well as closures in several districts in the interior of the country by the Single Union of Construction Workers (Suntracs), the National Confederation of Trade Union Unity (Conusi) and other popular groups.
Roadblocks also occurred on the Cinta Costera, Avenida Balboa, Bella Vista, El Cangrejo and Vía España.
Abdiel Bethancourt, leader of Suntracs pointed out that these closures at the national level are in support of a group of squatters from the Promised Land that invaded land in the area of the Nicolás A. Solano de La Chorrera hospital where their rights were “violated” and evicted. with the use of tear gas.
In addition, they ask for the release of seven colleagues who are being detained after the vandalism that occurred inside the aforementioned hospital. “There was a hearing where there was no complaint, no evidence or damage to public property was presented as reported in the news,” Bethancourt explained.
According to the leader, more than 100,000 construction workers are at home with suspended contracts and those who had returned to work, 30% were liquidated because there is no full employment policy.
“On March 20, 2020, the contracts were suspended according to Mitradel and more than 23 thousand workers were at home, 19,500 returned and about three months ago there were only 16 thousand physically, but part of those who entered the works finished their phase and again they are in their house. Three years ago there were 70,000 workers in construction. Unemployment is going down and projects continue to end and there are no new construction projects, ”explained the worker.
Other points where there were blockages were on the Inter-American highway, in the Penonomé district, where the Aquilino Tejeira hospital is being built, and on the Pan-American highway, near Palo Alto, on December 24.
Construction workers also demonstrated at the Puerto Armuelles hospital construction project in the Barú district, Chiriquí province.
