Three weeks ago the Chileans demonstrated with anti-government protests in the streets of their country and this Friday several unions called a National Unemployment for next Tuesday, November 12 in rejection of measures announced by the government of Sebastián Piñera.
The National Unemployment was announced by the National Strike Committee, composed of unions from the port, mining, construction, industry, commerce, education, health, agriculture and public services sectors, with the support of the Social Unity Table that brings together more from 70 organizations of all kinds.
At a press conference, Horacio Fuentes, president of Industrial Chile Constramet, said that workers have not been left out of the processes that drive the whole society for a better Chile and assured that the prevailing economic model has a huge debt to the working class.
Alejandro Lilis, from the Union of Ports of Chile, supported the call for a general strike and called on society to join that day to promote the real changes the country needs.
For his part, Richard Aránguiz, spokesman of the Mining Union, considered it important that the population continue to manifest itself and pointed out as one of the great demands the realization of a Constituent Assembly.
From the National Trade Union of Industrial Construction and Assembly Workers, its president, Jorge Hernández, considered the unit achieved among public and private sector employees a historical fact and considered that the Chilean slogan woke up should be reversed in achieving real changes.
He added that a large part of the demands of the people go through transformations of the labor world, such as collective bargaining, a minimum salary of 500 thousand pesos, and not 350 thousand with a State bonus that does not solve the problem.
For his part, Juan Moreno, in charge of the Branch Council of Commerce of the Unitary Central of Workers, said that “if we do not talk about decent wages, decent pensions, Chile will not change.”
