This agreement will most likely be signed on Tuesday or Wednesday of this week.
All criminal charges brought by the company against the union leaders are to be dropped.
Union officers Zenaida Torres and Santiago Villalobos and 15 workers will return to work immediately after an agreement is signed. Then, over a period of two months, each Monday ten workers will be rehired to complete a total of between 70 and 90 workers who were fired for being affiliated with the union. Ruiz emphasized that the reinstatement of these union officers and members will mean that the legal recognition of the union, which would have expired in February, will not be lost. Ruiz emphasized that the agreement has yet to be signed and said that Nien Hsing legal representative Doris Escalona had told Garment Workers' Federation General Secretary Pedro Ortega on Monday morning that she still had not seen the employment records of twenty of the workers scheduled to be rehired. Nien Hsing is the name of the Taiwanese business group that owns the Chentex factory in Nicaragua.