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Brutal gov’t repression forces end to national strike

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Brutal gov’t repression forces end to national strike [Green Left Weekly] 02-11-2025


Trade union submits a complaint to the EC claiming that the banana industry is failing to protect human rights and the environment [Business & Human Rights Resource Centre] 07-10-2025


Union denounces violation of banana workers’ rights [Latin America Reports] 05-10-2025


PSI sides with public sector workers in Ecuador to resist privatisation push [PSI] 04-09-2024


ILO recognizes the rights of the Shuar Arutam people in Ecuador with PSI support [PSI] 04-04-2024



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Brutal gov’t repression forces end to national strike 2025-11-02 [Green Left Weekly]

Trade union submits a complaint to the EC claiming that the banana industry is failing to protect human rights and the environment 2025-10-07 [Business & Human Rights Resource Centre]

Union denounces violation of banana workers’ rights 2025-10-05 [Latin America Reports]

Ecuador Labour unions express concerns about proposed free trade agreement with Ecuador 2024-10-20 [USW]

Ecuador Solidarity with Indigenous women resisting free trade, mining violations in Ecuador 2024-10-08 [CUPE]

Ecuador NUPGE hosts Why We Say No tour activists from Ecuador 2024-10-04 [NUPGE]

PSI sides with public sector workers in Ecuador to resist privatisation push 2024-09-04 [PSI]

ILO recognizes the rights of the Shuar Arutam people in Ecuador with PSI support 2024-04-04 [PSI]

We welcome the initiatives of the trade unions and popular movement to stop the war in Ecuador 2024-01-28 [PSI]

ITUC demands immediate government action 2023-08-15 [ITUC]

Demonstrators in Ecuador protest woman's killing, demand payment to pension system 2022-09-22 [Reuters]

Transport workers in Ecuador halt their activities in the lawsuits against the government 2021-04-20 [Prensa Latina]

In Ecuador, abaca workers are demanding justice and an end to 60 years of modern-day slavery 2021-02-22 [Equal Times]

Country approves ILO Convention 190 ratification 2021-01-25 [BWI]

Pandemic overwhelms govt's national response 2020-04-15 [BWI]

We are cheap labour to fight COVID-19 2020-04-14 [Opendemocracy]

Ecuador's Moreno, indiginous groupsreach deal to end protests 2019-10-15 [Al Jazeerah]

Government represses strike 2019-10-14 [BWI]

General strike against the IMF shuts down Ecuador 2019-10-13 [Left Voice]

Ecuador paralyzed by strikes as Moreno refuses to step down 2019-10-11 [The Guardian]

Violent repression in Ecuador as workers resist IMF package 2019-10-10 [ITUC]

Indigenous groups, workers keep pressure on Moreno 2019-10-07 [The Express]

Unions call off anti-austerity protests after 370 arrests in two days 2019-10-04 [Reuters]

ITUC warns of IMF agreement's attack on workers 2019-05-07 [ITUC]

Ministry of Labour denies trade union registration 2018-06-12 [BWI]

Taxi Drivers, Cooperatives Protest Against Cabify, Uber 2018-03-27 [TeleSUR]

Workers dismissed for organising unions 2018-03-06 [BWI]

Workers Rally to Support Moreno in 'Yes' Campaign 2018-01-07 [TeleSUR]

Ecuador Floods in Peru, Colombia and Ecuador: natural disasters or state incompetence? 2017-07-17 [Equal Times]

This month in labour history

15-11-1922 In the city of Guayaquil, workers come together in a general strike for pay rises and the 8-hour day. Soldiers fire on a mass rally, killing as many as 300 people. Workers won most of their demands a few days later, but the state repression of t [more]