Striker Rights Roil Chile as Bachelet Tries Erasing Pinochet
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Bloomberg
Chile is one of only four countries in the 34-member Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, including the U.S., that allows companies to replace striking workers, thanks to labor laws drawn up during the 1980s when dictator Augusto Pinochet was still in power.
Thirty-five years later, President Michelle Bachelet says it’s time for Chile to repay an historic debt to workers and is backing a bill to ban the practice and boost the power of labor unions. The proposed draft has sparked controversy among businessmen, academics and some legislators, who question what “debt” s
