Colombia’s aviation authority allowed the country’s largest private airline, Avianca, to hire foreign workers to curb the effects of a pilot strike. Some 700 pilots went on strike to demand…
Talks to end a strike by the largest pilots’ union at Colombia’s flagship airline Avianca were suspended after failure to reach agreement on wages and benefits, the two sides said…
Colombia’s largest airliner, Avianca, was forced to cancel 150 flights on Wednesday after pilots called a strike amid a labor dispute with the company. The first day of the strike…
Hundreds of thousands of Colombia’s school teachers ended a five-week strike on Friday after coming to an agreement on investment in public education and improved working conditions. Education Minister Yaneth…
Colombia’s government on Tuesday reached an agreement that will lift the strike in the port city of Buenaventura. In the early hours of the morning a deal was brokered that…
Teachers from across Colombia will arrive in Bogota on Tuesday for a “permanent occupation” of the capital to further pressure the government to invest in the country’s substandard education system,…
Crude production at Colombia’s La Cira-Infantas oilfield has fallen more than 80 percent during the last week, state-run oil company Ecopetrol said on Wednesday, due to protests by local residents…
After more than a week of protests, the people of Buenaventura on Wednesday took to blocking the country’s largest port, allowing not one truck to either enter or leave. After…
Hundreds of thousands of Colombia’s state employees laid down work and took to the streets in all Colombia’s major cities on Thursday, increasing pressure on the government to attend their…