Peru
Peru, mine workers, worker rights, Solidarity Center

The Solidarity Center assists Peruvian unions in the mining, textile and export-agriculture industries tackle the enormous social and economic inequity challenges in the country. Credit: Solidarity Center/Samantha Tate

  In partnership with Peru’s national labor confederations and mining, garment and agriculture federations, the Solidarity Center provides local unions with hands-on assistance and training in membership building, collective bargaining and women’s representation so they can better represent vulnerable workers who often do not have a voice at the workplace. By concentrating its outreach among vulnerable workers in the mining, textile and export-agriculture industries, the Solidarity Center assists Peruvian unions, the democratic representatives of workers, in tackling the enormous challenge of social and economic inequity and redefine the framework that governs decent economic opportunity.

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People Power in Peru Pays off

After thousands of Peruvian workers took to the streets on Thursday, the Peruvian government backed off a proposal (Supreme Decree 4008) that would have made it easier for employers to conduct mass layoffs. The proposed legislation also would have allowed employers to...

Young Workers Shake up Peru, Stop Discriminatory Law

After lawmakers in Peru rammed through a law last November that reduced salaries and benefits for workers under age 25, they adjourned Congress and went to their home districts for the Christmas holiday, likely thinking the matter was over. Tens of thousands of young...

Peru Workers Celebrate Repeal of Law Targeting Youth

Workers in Peru are celebrating the repeal this week of a labor law that targeted young workers, a huge victory that followed weeks of street demonstrations and protests by working people and their unions. Peru’s Congress voted 11­4–91 to repeal the law, which reduced...

Thousands of Peruvians Protest Violence

Thousands of Peruvians marched in Lima, the capital, yesterday in a strong show of support for an end to organized crime and related violence in Peru's booming construction sector. Unions and civil society leaders called for a systemic solution to the phenomenon of...

Peru: Striking Workers Detained, One Beaten

Eighteen agricultural workers in Peru were detained during a work stoppage as they protested an agro-industrial company’s failure to uphold its collective bargaining agreement, according to the Camposol Workers’ Union (SITECASA). One union leader, Carmen Silvestre...

Peru: Women Farm Workers Build Empowerment Network

Rosa Pérez was brought to Lima, Peru, from the country’s Northern Sierra when she was a child to work as a domestic worker. As a young adult, she moved to the farming region of La Libertad to make her own way as an agricultural laborer. Thirty years, four children and...

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