Albino Vargas, Secretary General of the National Association of Public and Private Employees (ANEP), confirmed that the pressure measure will continue on Tuesday with the same blockades on roads and with workers from the health, ports, and transport sectors, as well as municipal workers.
On Tuesday, there will be blockades behind San José Municipality, specifically on the train tracks. Other groups will go the Mexico Hospital and Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE).
For Wednesday, the organizers of the strike asked all the unionists to gather in San José with their families and go surround the legislative building in Cuesta de Moras, going through Paseo Colón and Avenida segunda.
Regarding the impact on essential services, the union representative said that people still have power, water, and communications, and that, in the case of suspended surgeries, the health unions will reschedule them as soon as possible.
Vargas also claims that, until Monday afternoon, they hadn’t received official communications from President Carlos Alvarado or Minister Rodolfo Piza, and reiterated their commitment to continue the strike until the fiscal project is withdrawn from Congress.