[Via... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . . ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 1:43 AM Subject: Colombia. Daily News 16 May 2001 From: Colombian Labor Monitor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 00:09:37 -0500 (CDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CLM: Daily News 16 May 2001 ________________________________________________________________ COLOMBIAN LABOR MONITOR www.prairienet.org/clm Wednesday, 16 May 2001 REUTERS -- Tuesday, 15 May 2001 Colombia teachers, doctors strike over IMF reform ________________________________________________________________ **************************************************************** REUTERS Tuesday, 15 May 2001 Colombia teachers, doctors strike over IMF reform -------------------------- BOGOTA -- Teachers and public health workers across Colombia launched an indefinite strike on Tuesday to protest a IMF-agreed cost-cutting reform measure that would trim federal spending on states and municipalities. Union leaders said 300,000 teachers and 90,000 health workers joined the strike, timed to coincide with a slated Senate vote on the reform bill later Tuesday. Striking workers argue the measure would slash spending on social services, like health and education. "This is a patriotic strike to defend resources for health and education. We are going to see if, for the first time, (President Andres) Pastrana listens to the people and instead of answering to the IMF answers to Colombians," Gloria Ines Ramirez, head of the Colombian Teachers Federation, told Reuters. Economists say Colombia's government needs the belt-tightening measure to meet a 2001 fiscal deficit target of 2.8 percent of gross domestic product, as agreed to under a $2.7 billion IMF bailout loan agreement signed in 1999. If the bill wins Senate approval, it will move to the lower chamber of Congress for two more rounds of voting. Copyright 2001 Reuters ________________________________________________________________ **************************************************************** * CLM-NEWS is brought to you by the COLOMBIAN LABOR MONITOR at * * http://www.prairienet.org/clm * * and the CHICAGO COLOMBIA COMMITTEE * * Email us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or * * Dennis Grammenos at [EMAIL PROTECTED] * **************************************************************** * To unsubscribe send request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * unsubscribe clm-news * **************************************************************** _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
