On 15 January 2012, 24 workers were dismissed by the Mayor of the municipality of San José El Rodeo for having started the process to set up the Union of Municipality Workers.
In June 2012, Ingenio Palo Gordo, one of the main companies in the sugar cane sector, fired seven members of the union’s Executive Committee.
Between 2011 and 2012, the Presidential Human Rights Commission dismissed almost every member of the union’s Executive Committee.