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Archive for 'July,2011'

Walmart Labour Troubles Continue in Chile

Radio Chile reports that the strike discussed last week by the workers of Walmart Chile has in fact started at their stores called “Acuenta”.  (The video above is from a demonstration shot by the Walmart workers [...]

Walmart Backs Down in Chile

El Mercurio reported this weekend that they would delete from the DICOM system the accounts of certain credit card holders whose debt had been reported to DICOM.  (DICOM in Chile the credit reporting agency owner by [...]

Starbuck Workers on Hunger Strike

Today’s El Mercurio newspaper reports that some of Starbuck’s workers here in Chile have gone on a hunger strike because the company has not given in to their demands after 18 days of strike.  The workers want [...]

Walmart Workers perhaps will go on Strike in Chile

According to web site site Terra.cl , Walmart workers here in Chile are on alert because they could go on strike next week.  Their union leadership says Walmart has refused to negotiate with the union which actually represents the [...]

Why Chile is a Better Outsourcing Destination than India

That Salman Rushdie was condemned to death by Iran (fatwa) for writing “The Satanic Verses”  is well known.  That he was treated similarly by India is not.   The Hindi Indian government cast him into exile to try [...]

Women’s Soccer in America : No Big Deal in Chile

When I was in school my parents each summer would pack me and my brother off to summer camp in part because my mother worked.  One year I broke my arm so could not accompany my [...]

Starbucks on Strike

In the USA Starbucks is known to be a worker-friendly company whose coffee stewards, called “barristas”, are given health insurance says their CEO Howard Shultz in an interview on the American television show 60 Minutes.  But [...]

How to Buy a Smart Phone in the USA and use it in Chile

Recently I bought an unlocked Motorola CliqXT cellphone (aka MB 501) in the USA at Best Buy.  When I came to Chile and snapped in my Entel SIM card it would not work.  So a friend [...]