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Throughout the world Santander workers are joining together to demand for equal treatment towards their workers, no matter where they work. In the USA there is no union representing Santander workers (Sovereign). Our colleagues in the USA are fighting to change this, but they need our help. In just a year and a half since Santander bought USA Sovereign bank, 2700 positions have been cut. That is a 23% of the workforce!



Many workers have been reduced to part-time and as a consequence they have lost part of their income and benefits.



In the face of a justice campaign, Santander has generated an atmosphere of fear where workers are afraid to speak out. Some workers, who have supported the creation of a union, have been dismissed!



Other workers have been warned by the company that they are in complete opposition to any unionisation project. These workers are forced to believe that they do not have the basic right to join a union, without fear and intimidation. A group representing the workers of the world is now in Boston expressing their solidarity and holding meetings with local authorities to stop these abuses.



We demand that:



Santander should rehire the workers dismissed with no fair cause and that it should stop interfering with the worker’s right to form a union, and which is most important: the subscription of a global agreement which should protect labour rights in the USA and throughout the world.



Let’s fight for a Global Agreement which shall protect Santander worker’s rights everywhere.



Throughout the world workers and their organisations are carrying out mobilisations to defend Employment and demand respect toward union freedom. In Chile we also want stability and the labour movement joins to the international solidarity demand.



For more information, please visit www.bankonrights.org - www.bancariachile.cl