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Santiago de Chile. Workers from Ahumada Pharmacies, FASA, who have been carrying out mobilisations to demand wage increase, accuse the company’s executives of not willing to resolve the conflict and to “turn a deaf ear” to their demands.



“(Executives) are the worst, the company refused to make contact with us until day 15, they did not utter a word and now they do not give us economic arguments, they just say no” expressed the union leader Imarú Martínez. The leader asserted that they seeded to improve their minimum wage of 32 thousand pesos (U$S 65.00) and they even resorted to mediation through the Ministry of Labour and the Catholic Church which was rejected by the company in an inaccessible attitude that nobody can understand, because every day they loose their profits”, he added.



The position in Congress



The Deputy of Renovación Nacional (National Renovation) from the governing alliance Mario Bertolino, President of the Labour Commission of the Lower Chamber, indicated that this conflict belongs to the private sector. “The workers themselves, through their unions and the appropriate legal advisory should file a bankruptcy claim, proceed to a court-ordered public auction and that is the way the company will respond and face its responsibilities of respecting the workers’ rights”



But his remarks were rejected by the leader of the opposing Social Party, Osvaldo Andrade who added “ According to this, (then) why did we take charge of the miners’ rescue if we were also dealing with a private issue”. “ These are subjects that go beneath the key issue in any society: a minimum social justice every citizen in this country has the right to have; it is a public good and as such has to be protected by the State”.



Source: Cooperativa.cl



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