After sergeant Ramon Abrahams was disciplined for reading an open letter about conditions in the army, non-commissioned officers held sit-down actions outside Parliament and the Prime Minister’s office. Their demands included recognition of a military union and reversal of the punishment. Police and union organizations supported the protest. This organizing is a documented precursor to 25 February 1980; it began as a labor-rights struggle, not an already unified anticolonial campaign.
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The 1979 sit-down strike included a demand for recognition of a military union.
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The non-commissioned officers protested discipline and denial of union recognition.