On Saturday March 12 became effective legal strike Ekono SA workers union, a union which brings about 305 workers at the company store, owned by Wal-Mart the largest supermarket company in the world whose worldwide sales exceed the GDP of Chile.
The Battle of the workers was on Wednesday 16 to the strike that was taking place in local EKON in Providence near the metro Pedro de Valdivia, talked with the leaders and they pointed out to us their problems regarding to strike, collective bargaining and working conditions themselves such
These brave workers face The company, in its petition there is nothing out of this world are being asked to climb the salary of 170 pesos to 200 pesos, due to the precariousness of salary compared to other supermarkets and also because workers are Multifunctional Ekono, which is a sign of insecurity WALL MART implemented by the work of people who work in the area of \u200b\u200bthe supermarket, this refers to polyfunctionality workers are hired to perform different functions within the local in this sense can reponedor work of cashiers, the cleaners, even guards, and all for the modest sum of the minimum wage, that way the store increases its profits by precarious work of its employees and thus have low prices (low prices for low wages.)
Another point is the security situation in the districts there are security guards while in the periphery, there are pockets that are traumatized because of the attacks, an official told us that a cashier was licensed by the ACHS because trauma and shock that had happened after being assaulted.
The Company has tried to avoid the strike by using various tricks that have not worked, workers are watching the moves and know how to anticipate, for example the first day of strike before becoming legally effective to control the inspection of work and all that is needed to process a number of people for the strike was legal, the company in a desperate measure offered money to people who were in strike other than to meet in the premises where they intended to demonstrate and thus the strike would not be effective because of the lack of a quorum but this did not result, and co-equal Ekono came to meet and demonstrate to grow logando enforce and legal to strike. Another measure is that members of the union members but for reasons of registration dates were not able to be on the list of collective bargaining and therefore could not participate in the strike, the Company was prohibited from entering premises to work with these partners, so they were being discriminated against their right to decent work, so that the prohibition was against her daily food and which could also result in some resentment toward the union, the union responded to this by accusing the situation quickly in the inspection of work as well and explained Alexis told us Ubilla Secretary of the union.
As a curious and you see in the video, is that this ruling local where we recorded the strikers had a shop next door, where they had pants that cost 50 000 pesos, and next Striker was a partner with the poster calling for his salary of 170 thousand dollars, then give to believe, there are people asking for 30 thousand dollars more in salary and must reach these instances, while there are others who can afford to buy a 50 000 pesos pants .. There is note of inequality in this country.
This Thursday EKON workers denouncing repression by security guards and local EKON Curicó Street where even Strikers attacked members of the union, the union also alleges that the company is sending some customers fake fight with strikers create conflicts and thus draw the attention of police, these alleged customers are actually employees of the company, we were witnesses of a Lady in Providence, which insulted a striker, we do not know if any workers who report EKON because it seemed rather a cultural reaction of a person living in that wealthy municipality of Santiago and that discontent is with the Strikers
Strike will continue until the very end, and the battle will be there to report
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