This agreement could be signed on Monday morning.
All criminal charges brought by the company against the union leaders are to be dropped.
The union will issue a full report on Monday, after the agreement is signed. This was a long, hard struggle under most difficult circumstances. Before this campaign started, the head of the Nicaraguan Legislative Assembly's Human Rights Commission could not even enter the Free Trade Zone. With grinding poverty and 60 percent unemployment, and with a virtual grant of impunity from the Ministry of Labor, the maquila companies did whatever they wanted to. There were always another 1000 workers to replace those fired.