According to information offered today by the Costa Rican government, 98.5% of the workers still on strike are employees of the Ministry of Public Education, “The labor unions’ strike against the fiscal plan has diluted in the majority of public institutions that joined the movement in the beginning, back on September 10, and currently the protests are limited to workers of the Ministry of Education”, affirms the press release.

The information of the Government is based on reports of 46 public institutions, were 45 report working with complete normality.

“The employees that joined the movement in these 45 institutions represented a 13% of the protest in the beginning stages, by October 1st this number had gone down to 7% and by October 12 it only represents 1.5%”.

“The strike that presented itself as a national movement is limited at this time to the educators, this sector represents 98.5% of the strikers”.

The Social Security Service was the second institution with highest participation of strikers, currently only 300 people continue on strike, representing 0.7% of the employees of this entity, the majority of them are workers of the San Isidro de Perez Zeledón hospital.
389 workers of the Costa Rica Electricity Institute and 35 of the Aqueducts and Sewers Institute also continue on strike.