In March 2014, the Spanish multinational Prosegur once again imposed a “collective pact" by bribing and threatening the workers. Two million pesos was the amount offered on this occasion to any unionised worker agreeing to renounce the union and the collective bargaining agreement and to accept the so-called collective pact renewed by the company in December 2013.
The company was denounced by Fidel Hugo Alfonso, president of SINTRAVALORES, the union representing Prosegur workers at company level. The union leader filed a report with the Public Prosecutor’s Office, calling on it to prosecute the company’s legal representative for violating the right to organise, which is an offence under the penal code. He also filed an administrative complaint with the Labour Ministry, accusing the company of discriminatory treatment, hindering the right to organise and contravening the collective agreement.