Frente Obrero

Frente Obrero (Spanish for 'Workers Front') was a national trade union centre in Nicaragua. It was founded c. 1972-74, as the trade union wing of the MAP-ML.

For other uses, see Frente Obrero (disambiguation).
FO poster. Slogan reads 'Negotiate with the workers - not the contra!'

When the National Reconstruction Government was formed on July 19, 1979, FO had one of 33 representatives in the Council of State.[1] As of 1983, it was mainly active in the construction and sugar cane sectors.[2]

Adopting what it saw as an anti-revisionist policy on the Sandinistas, starting in 1980 strikes led by the Front occurred in the private sugar mills of San Antonio and Monterrosa, while the Front called for 100% salary increases, started a series of occupations of privately owned lands and industries, sabotaged government-led economic efforts, and advocated the development of "another civil war, this time against the Sandinista Front."[3] Its base of support, however, gradually declined from thereon.

It was dissolved in 1986.

See also

References
  1. "Estatuto fundamental de 20 de julio de 1979". La Gaceta (1). 22 August 1979. Archived from the original (DOC) on 2007-06-06. Retrieved 2007-06-14.
  2. Revista Envío - El sindicalismo nicaragüense frente a la agresión y la defensa
  3. George Black, Triumph of the People: The Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, New York: ZED Press, 1981, p. 337.
  • "Labor Relations during the Sandinista Government" by Carlos Alá Santiago Rivera in Caribbean Studies, Vol. 24, No. 3/4 (1991), pp. 242-243.


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