Wednesday marks the 17th day of strike against the fiscal plan. The unions will celebrate this with a massive protest in downtown San José. “The March of the Cats,” as the guilds have called it, promises a greater participation than the first one held on September 12th, during the first week of the strike.
On Tuesday, Gilberto Cascante, spokesman of the National Association of Educators (ANDE), said that the movement aims to demonstrate to the government and detractors of the unions, that they are not divided and that their movement is strengthening.
The demonstration will start at 9:00 a.m. at the statue of León Cortés in La Sabana, and it will reach the Legislative Assembly.
Cascante blamed the Executive Power for failing to establish an agreement after six days of negotiations. At the moment there are only preliminary talks, without getting to discuss the fiscal crisis. Steven Núñez, Minister of Labor, assured that the Executive Power will keep the doors of dialogue open, despite the fact that on Monday, the negotiations were reversed.
On Tuesday, the unions and the government resumed talks to try to reach a preliminary agreement, which sets the basis and conditions to negotiate a solution to the fiscal crisis at a dialogue table.