Archive for 'ChileLabor'
How to Find work in Chile
Some people have asked me how to find a job here. So I will explain for you how I found my job. I work as a computer programmer in IT so this would be relevant for [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]








Fernando Botero’s paintings of torture at Abu Ghraib prison
Thought-provoking...
Give me a Grandparent
I am blessed with 7 grandchildren. I am making copies of this poem t
Give me a Grandparent
As I spend more and more time with more and more wonderfully different
George Orwell’s other Novels
In Latin America, kids don't read Orwell. I wish they did.
George Orwell’s other Novels
Animal Farm and 1984 are about any kind of dictatorship, not just comm