ICE Strike Turnout Low
Apparently vacation days were more important to the ICE workers than opening themselves to competition. Carlos Manuel ObregĂłn, general manager at ICE, sent a memo stating that sanctions would be implemented for those employees participating in the strike. Which means that workers would have to take a vacation day in order to receive pay.
Although, Jorge Arguedas, of the Internal Worker’s Front (FIT), sent a counter memo, many workers did not participate and services that should have been inoperative (like information) functioned normally. The strike was to pressure the Legistlative Assembly on opening the “ICE Fortification Bill” to input from social sectors and to bring it out of commission.