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Seventy-five union leaders meet in Santiago, Chile

Union leaders representing mechanics, pilots, flight attendants, and ground staff of LAN Airlines and TAM Airlines from 7 countries: Chile, Peru, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil and Paraguay are providing support to the striking workers of LAN in Chile.

SANTIAGO, CHILE – More than 75 union leaders from the LATAM Group in Chile, Peru, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil and Paraguay are meeting in Chile in order to expand the conflict to each one of these countries.

LAN Airlines is owned by the LATAM Group, the largest passenger and airline cargo company in Latin America, a result of the merger of LAN Airlines and TAM Airlines. The company continues to operate under these two major brands.

The union leaders meeting in Santiago represent more than 50,000 workers in the LATAM Group and are unanimous in denouncing the anti worker practices and the multiple conflicts with aviation workers throughout the region.  These conflicts include the strike in Chile, and the anti-union dismissal of the president of the Ecuadorian aviation union, Jimena Lopez without just cause. In Colombia, the company is laying off experienced mechanics and cargo workers.  

The LAN and TAM Airline union leaders are meeting with the striking workers in Chile in order to expand and escalate the conflict and to expose the anti worker policies of the largest passenger and cargo airline company in Latin America.

At the Santiago airport passengers were absent from the LAN check in counters during a demonstration on Saturday by the striking LAN workers and their families.

LATAM is a full member of the One World Alliance. The group has bilateral agreements with American Airlines, Iberia, Qantas, Lufthansa, All Nippon Airways, Cathay Pacific, Japan Airlines, Air Canada and Aero Mexico.

The union leaders meeting in Santiago, Chile are members of the LATAM Network of Unions and affiliates of the International Federation of Transport Workers (ITF) representing 5 million transport workers in the world, in 706 unions in 154 countries.

Photo caption: Santiago Airport, Saturday, April 11, 2015 (PRNewsFoto/International Transport Workers’).

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