Tag: Uruguay's National Union of Construction and Related Industries (Sunca)

• Tuesday, August 4th 2026 - 15:29 UTC

  Uruguay: preliminary deal signed in construction to cut working hours

  

  Uruguay's construction workers' union, Sunca, and the sector's employer chambers reached a preliminary agreement on Tuesday to progressively reduce the working week from 44 to 40 hours, after more than four months of negotiations and industrial action.

• Thursday, February 13th 2025 - 19:49 UTC

  Uruguay: Possible slave-like conditions for Chinese company workers under investigation

  

  Uruguay's National Union of Construction and Related Industries (Sunca) Secretary-General Javier Díaz said the rate of labor accidents nationwide has worsened over the past five years and blamed the departing administration of President Luis Lacalle Pou for this, amid waning collective wage bargaining conditions and high unemployment and informality.