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Santiago. More than 500 unionised workers, men and women, gathered today (October 6^th) at 9.00 hrs at the headquarters of the Unitary Central of Workers (CUT) and paraded from the city’s downtown shouting slogans in favour of the strike towards the company’s Home Office. In other regions of the country, there was a majority support, and the response of the Ahumada Pharmacies’ workers to the call was of massive support to the strike.



The movement is headed by N⁰1 National Union of Ahumada Pharmacies’ Workers, which joins 759 workers in this negotiation, of the 3500 at a national level. The unionised workers are distributed in 206 stores of the 350 the company owns in Chile. As the key issue, profit participation is demanded through the payment of a guaranteed bonus.



Ahumada Pharmacies received, just in Chile in 2009, profits over 9000 million Chilean pesos (U$s 18 millions), and in the first semester of 2010, it surpasses the 7000 Chilean pesos (U$s 14 millions). In this process of collective negotiation the total demand of the union, does not exceed the 6% of 2009’s profits.



Contact: marcio.monzane@uniglobalunion.org