The Constitutional Chamber gave green light for Congress to vote on the fiscal reform, the Labor Court ruled for a second time the strike of educators as illegal, but the biggest labor union of the education sector, the National Association of Educators (ANDE) decided to maintain the strike while members of the Costa Rican Educators Labor Union (SEC) chose to go back to work, and APSE the third labor union, has not come to a decision yet.

ANDE informed us that it’s members voted and 58.58% voted against lifting the strike the so therefore they will maintain the movement. ANDE has close to 50 thousand members.

SEC, on the other hand, has close to 30 thousand members, and informed that they will be lifting the movement and signing the agreement with the Government, going back to class next week for the remaining 9 days of the school year and then will go on vacation. Some of the members of SEC expressed their rejection to this decision.

The agreement with the government establishes that there will be no retaliation against the educators that joined the strike; however, disciplinary measures regarding salary deductions or against strikers that traveled out of the country will be a decision of the courts.