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Unionised workers from Prosegur in Santiago de Chile drove 80 armoured vehicles belonging to the company to La Moneda, the Presidential Palace, to present a letter to the country’s President Michelle Bachelet.

The workers’ action occurred after the killing of their work colleague Rafael Pardo Triviño last Friday the 31st of July in a shooting in the city of San Antonio in Chile.

The letter complains about the constant assaults and violence against workers who suffered 17 attacks between January and October 2014. In their letter to President Bachelet the union wrote, “Workers are always blamed for these assaults due to noncompliance with security protocols, generating a wave of criticism against workers by society in general. Those that are least responsible are the workers who are victims of this criminality, on the one hand, and on the other are the cash-in-transit companies, who ignore improvements required by authorities.”

The union asks for a tripartite table with the government and security companies to discuss the security problems and the concerns of workers in the sector. 

According to the Prosegur 2014 Annual Report, 18 company employees were killed at work around the world during 2014.