No more blockages, no more school closures, no more luxury salary incentives and no more cancellation of health services because of union strikes. These are some of the requests of a citizen group that demonstrated in San José on Sunday morning.
They left at about 10:30 am from Parque La Merced towards the Park of La Democracia, with banners and slogans with the requests mentioned above.
Although it was a small group, Gerardo Molina, one of the participants, said that they represent thousands of Costa Ricans who are “tired of the abuse of a group of public employees.”
While Omar Jiménez, one of the organizers, said that although he is a public employee, he does not agree with the closures of schools or colleges or with the calls to break the institutionalization of the country.
It’s not right that in the public sector there are people earning 15 million colones when there are farmers who can’t produce,”
said Jiménez.
In addition, participants in the activity organized by “Together for CR” ask the legislators to “not be afraid” and approve the bill that would ban strikes in essential services such as education and health.
The march allowed the vehicular passage because they only occupied two lanes of the Second Avenue.