Jorge Bustos, leader of United Port Workers (TPU), insists that the issue will be resolved when the government acknowledges that workers in the San Antonio port are entitled to retroactive payments they say they were promised in a dispute over abolished lunch hours last year.
Attempts to break up the strike at the port — which handles 80% of Chile's fruit exports turned to serious confrontation earlier in the week.
“At 6 p.m. [Monday] 300 policemen closed the doors, and 320 administrative workers entered the building of STI [San Antonio International Terminal],” Bustos told The Santiago Times.
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