They tried to destroy the Venezuelan economy in the “bosses’ strike” of 2002-3.

Canada Post locks out CUPW employees, in a labour dispute.[26]

Likewise, in 2002-03 when state oil company executives launched a lock-out.

Canada Post locks out CUPW employees, in a labour dispute.[26]

Two days after the employers’ strike, would there have been any reprisals against the right to work of the Nicaraguan people?

The laws that were passed, the authorizing laws, the oil laws, the water law, they all sparked the reaction of the aristocracy, and then we had the coup, the oil strike, the employers strike.

There was also the participation of the private sector, COSEP, in the employers’ strike, an appeal against the right of Nicaraguans to work.

On June 15, the day after the employers strike, Sandinista lawyer and activist Marlon Medina Tobal was shot dead while walking beside a barricade in the city of Leon.

After the failed coup d’état and the bosses’ oil strike we were able to legally dismiss 17,0000 managers for abandoning their posts for two months and taking a holiday.

But the PSUV and the Chavista state have effectively disarmed and demobilized the force that beat back the 2002 attempted coup against Chávez and the bosses’ strike that followed — that is, the mass movement itself.

But the PSUV and the Chavista state have effectively disarmed and demobilized the force that beat back the 2002 attempted coup against Chávez and the bosses' strike that followed--that is, the mass movement itself.