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| The complainant organization alleges hiring of workers by the Compañía de Telecomunicaciones de Chile S.A. (Chile Telecommunications Company) and other group holding companies to replace striking workers, anti-trade union practices during the 2002 strike, including police presence and the fact that the companies prevented access by trade union leaders to their premises; interference such that trade union leaders were replaced and giving preference to a trade union favourable to the company, leading to considerable loss of membership by the trade unions affiliated to the complainant organization, which suffered from an anti-trade union campaign by company executives, and pressure in the form of benefits to workers who negotiated through the trade union favourable to the employer as well as threats of dismissal of workers if they did not resign their membership; giving preference to the trade union favourable to the company in the collective bargaining process in 2003; systematic failure to honour existing collective agreements; dismissal for anti-trade union motives, including trade union leaders; loss of leave for full-time trade union officials |
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