Labor Day holiday of break

 In Ecuador as with many other countries, political movements and workers made peaceful marches on May carrying banners allusive to date.

On this date not all rest or attend marches, as many jobs can not be suspended for being vital to the functioning of society, others prefer not rest as sustenance earn it every day a day without work affect their fragile economy, something very common in poor countries called third world.


HISTORY OF LABOR RIGHTS WORKER ECUATORIANO

The first nuclei of working class in Ecuador appear only in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. But their precarious situation reminded the workers of the central capitalist countries. And in Ecuador they began the struggle for better wages, reducing hours and conquer minimum labor rights.

To mark the centenary of the First Cry of Independence, August 10, 1909 the First Congress was held Ecuadorian Workers. In 1911, at the initiative of the Association of Suppliers Market Guayaquil, it was commemorated for the first time on 1. May, the Ecuadorian workers continued remembering in the following years. The government of Leonidas Plaza Gutiérrez, by decree of April 23, 1915, consecrated "May Day each year holiday for the workers of Ecuador". 



The following year (1916) was decreed in the country the 8-hour day, but was systematically circumvented. There were protests, strikes and demands of the Ecuadorian working class not only to advance the conquest of their rights, but also to achieve respect and generalization of the 8-hour day. In Guayaquil, the workers' strike called for these purposes was suppressed on 15 November 1922 with a shocking massacre of workers.

Recognizing that trajectory of struggles of incipient Ecuadorian proletariat, the July Revolution of 1925, as well as modernizing the State, institutionalized care for the working classes by creating the Ministry of Social Welfare and Labor, the Pension Fund, the issuance of the first labor laws and even the introduction of income tax, which were excluded classes asalariadas.Tras these early efforts, in 1938 the new Labour Code, which recognized the fundamental principles of protecting workers and the basic guarantee was issued their rights.

In later decades new institutions for the protection and rights joined the working classes of Ecuador. He grew the idea that economic development would never be enough without creating welfare conditions for the national majority.

However, the resistance of concentrators kinds of economic power failed to reverse the historical legacy of marginalization, poverty, misery, unemployment, underemployment, the plight of the employed and the scandalous concentration of wealth in minority dominant.