After the Labor Court of Appeals of the Second Judicial Circuit of San José reversed a verdict and declared the strike at the Costa Rican Petroleum Refinery (RECOPE) as legal, the Executive Branch did not sit idly by and presented an appeal before the Second Chamber.
In a first ruling the strike was declared illegal; however, the Union of Oil, Chemical and Allied Workers (SITRAPEQUIA) filed an appeal that was accepted by the court that later declared the strike against the tax reform plan as legal in this entity.
One of the arguments of the court of appeals was that importing hydrocarbons is not an essential service.
President Carlos Alvarado said that going to the Second Chamber aims to exhaust all legal mechanisms to ensure the safeguarding of public goods before the impacts caused by the strike that, in the case of the refinery, lasted for a month.
I asked the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) to file an appeal before the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, against the ruling declaring the strike in RECOPE legal,”
said the president.
Alvarado insisted that the activity of commercialization and transport of fuels by RECOPE was severely affected and had serious consequences, which represented millions of losses and had a negative impact on the national economy.