workers’ rights, international labor conventions and appropriate struggle strategies in order to thwart local or foreign bosses. Our interventions touch upon: 1) The non-respect of workers’ union rights, notably the right to unionize and the right to collective negotiation; 2) The need to increase the minimum daily wage, while insisting on the right of the workers to have a salary that takes into account the cost of life and the continuous devaluation of the gourd, our national currency; 3) The need for a progressive decrease until total elimination of production quotas in assembly factories; 4) Improvement of work conditions and respect for workers’ persons; 5) Impunity in the work arena: bosses have the Ministry of the Social Affaires or the Work Tribunal’s complicity in hindering workers legal rights; 6) Sexual harassment; 7) Generalized despotism in the work arena; 8) Lay-offs, illegal suspensions and all shapes of arbitrary of which workers are the victims; 9) Workers awareness on the need for a new Labor Code and the absence of a social security plan in Haiti, as well as the dubious practices of State institutions such as the old age office (ONA); 10) Necessary reforms within the Social Affairs Ministry but also our support to the civil servants in their struggle against the application of the structural adjustment program imposed by international financial institutions to our country; 11) Police repression and that carried out by elected local officials such the C.a.s.e.c. (Village Administration Councils) as well as certain employees of the Labor Ministry against peasant organization members; 12) Economic or political measures that don't allow for a real and sustained development of our natural and human resources; 13) The need for of another type of state capable of putting workers’ and popular masses’ interests foremost. Batay Ouvriye intervenes on all these points by distributing fliers, booklets and bulletins, organizing press conferences, sending press releases, distributing or pasting posters in the industrial zones and districts where workers reside. Also, we hold pickets at factories entries, in front of the Ministry of the Social Affaires to force them to hear our demands concerning the numerous problems we face. We wage a continuous struggle for a real change in our life and work conditions, as workers of Port-au-Prince, the high Artibonite, the low Central Plateau and the North, as well as specific struggles throughout the entire country around problems emerging from our daily lives. This,