On July 23rd 2013, the ORGANIZED WORKERS’ UNION OF THE NATION’S GENERAL ATTORNEY’S OFFICE –STOPGN-, member of the GUATEMALAN UNION, INDIGENOUS AND PEASANT MOVEMENT –MSICG- presented a collective conflict of social economic nature before the Labor and Social Prevision Courts against the Nation’s General Attorney’s Office, VLADIMIR OSMAN AGUILAR GUERRA, to negotiate the Collective Agreement of Labor Conditions with the Majority Union.

MSICG regrets that the Nation’s General Attorney, Dr.  VLADIMIR OSMAN AGUILAR GUERRA, legal representative of the State of Guatemala, in charge of the legal defense of the various State institutions, in practice shows a position that’s contrary to respecting the fundamental right to collective negotiation, and it calls upon him to reflect and take into account that the defense of the State cannot be undertaken based upon contradictions, delays or refusals in complying with the duties of respecting the very rights that this State is obliged to enforce.

MSICG hopes that the right to collective negotiation of its affiliate, STOPGN, finds an effective guarantor of its full positive nature in the labor justice system, despite the fact the Advisor assigned by the Nation’s General Attorney, JUAN CARLOS CORONA LOPEZ, in the light of Agreement 27-2009 of the Supreme Court of Justice, has been appointed Substitute Magistrate of the First Court of Appeals of Labor and Social Prevision, against whose permanent members MSICG has promoted a complaint for possible committing at least 8 crimes with the intention of denying the workers unionizing right.

Guatemala, July 23rd 2013.

POLITICA COUNCIL
GUATEMALAN UNION, INDIGENOUS AND PEASANT MOVEMENT
MSICG