The Honduras government has dismissed 8,000 public sector workers under pressure from the International Monetary Fund. In doing so, it has violated the country's labor laws. The trade union movement is uniting to fight the measure and demand compensation for the affected workers. Labor leaders fear a wave of privatizations of state run companies and further mass layoffs as the government moves forward with its neoliberal economic policies. Gerardo Torres reports from Tegucigalpa. teleSUR