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The National Federation of Trade Unions of Unilever Chile (FENASIUN) is accusing British-Dutch corporation Unilever of violationg the rights of Chilean workers by failing to provide them with information about the closing down of its factories and by preventing the workers to make the company's decisions public. In September of 2006, the company began the second process of massive lay offs, that will lead to the closing down of 50 factories and the loss of 20,000 jobs. The accusation against Unilever was filed at the Peoples Summit, Linking Alternatives 3, held in Lima, Peru. The Chilean federation filed this case with the support of the Unitary Workers’ Central (CUT) and the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (CSA).

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