Uruguay: Fishing workers confront police

Uruguay: Fishing workers confront police

Several arrests, injuries to police and protesters, and a police helicopter flying over Plaza Independencia were part of the saga of the protests by the Single Union of Sea Workers and Related Workers. The group maintains its work stoppage in defense of labor rights and remains intransigent in the face of the employers’ position that it will not negotiate with the union until the fishing boats return to work. “Every time we go out to protest, se…