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Sunday January 26, 2014 23:45 by ideas & action - Chilean Tour supporters
Against bosses lies Chilean Port workers in 14 northern and southern ports have been on strike, at various times, since late December 2013. The strike wave began in the northern Port of Angamos to continue the ongoing fight to win a paid half hour lunch break for port workers, for the integration of temporary workers into the union, and for reforms to the dictatorship-era labor law. The strike then hit other ports, with additional union members striking in support of the original demands and against the police brutality used against the Port of Angamos strikers. FECh president statement on Chile port strikeChilean Port workers in 14 northern and southern ports have been on strike, at various times, since late December 2013. The strike wave began in the northern Port of Angamos to continue the ongoing fight to win a paid half hour lunch break for port workers, for the integration of temporary workers into the union, and for reforms to the dictatorship-era labor law. The strike then hit other ports, with additional union members striking in support of the original demands and against the police brutality used against the Port of Angamos strikers. Port workers are key to the flow of Chile's largest export, copper. 9,500 tons of copper flow through the country's ports every day. This strike is also happening just when Chile's agricultural producers are trying to get their summer crop to port, and is expected to cost fruit exporters $70 million per week. There have been some sympathy actions from workers upstream in the capital flow, with miners at Chile's largest copper mine and workers in the forestry industry in the south taking action to cripple production. The head of the bosses Confederation for Production and Commerce (an association "representing the Chilean business community") accused anarchists of pushing the strikes. Responding to that accusation, Melissa Sepúlveda, President of the University of Chile Student Federation (FECh), and herself an anarchist and militant of the Frente de Estudiantes Libertarios and La Alzada, Acción Feminista Libertaria has issued the following statement, which "Ideas & Action" reprints below: Quote: In response to the statement given by the president of the Confederation of Production and Commerce (CPC), Andrés Santa Cruz, which accuses anarchists of driving strikes in the country's ports, the president of the Student Federation of the University of Chile (FECh), Melissa Sepúlveda (who ran for office in the Luchar (Struggle) coalition composed of collectives in the anarchist current), replied that "workers can have political orientations, as he (Santa Cruz) has one too". The translation has been provide by Gabriel, one of the Chilean comrades currently on a limited US speaking tour ( http://chilespeakingtour.wordpress.com ) - See more at: http://ideasandaction.info/2014/01/fech-statement-on-ch....dpuf |
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