“UNI reports Prosegur to Spanish government following violent attack in Peru” - 28 August 2014

UNI, the global trade union for security workers, contacted the Spanish OECD National Contact Point in Madrid this week to request urgent intervention after Luis Cardenas, an off-duty Prosegur worker, was viciously attacked in Peru. Cardenas, the General Secretary of the Prosegur Cash in Transit union, was smashed across the head with a rock during the unprovoked attack a short distance from his home in Lima. No personal property was taken. The assault came one month after anonymous pamphlets were circulated to staff on Prosegur property in Lima identifying Cardenas as a trade union leader with close ties to UNI and falsely accusing him of misappropriating union funds...