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Valparaiso. After a tenacious and long struggle on the part of Chilean Commerce Union Organisations to revert the injustice of excluding this sector’s workers from the benefit of the holidays corresponding to the Chilean Bicentennial Celebrations, and in spite of the opposition of the government, through senator Andres Allamand and the Ministry of Work, Camila Merino, the Senate finally approved the law in support of the workers.



With the Senate’s galleries crowded with union leaders of the CONSFECOVE and unions of Department Stores and supermarkets, the decision of declaring as inalienable holidays September 19^th and 20^th, was imposed by a majority of votes for all the commerce workers.



This achievement is the result of the worker’s strength, who persuaded parliamentarians, mass media and all the Chilean people, that depriving a great number of workers, most of them women and mothers, of the right to share with their families such an important celebration, was a tremendous injustice



Leandro Cortes, General Secretary of CONSFECOVE asserted that “we are happy because we put an end to an attitude of discrimination attempted to our sector”



Source: CONSFECOVE



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