With an emotional reminiscence of the smoke tragedy that in 1945 claimed the lives of 355 miners and left one other 747 significantly injured in an underground hearth on the El Teniente mine, the Labor Directorate (DT) commemorated this Wednesday on the Lucho Regional Theater Gatica its 100 years of existence.
The exercise on this metropolis is a part of the so-called “Centennial Milestones” which are being replicated in all areas to represent the historic legacy of the DT, its present duties and the challenges it should face in a frequently altering and extra advanced world of labor. .
With greater than 300 attendees, the commemoration consisted of two components. Within the first, a recorded greeting by the Minister of Labor and Social Safety, Jeannette Jara, was displayed. Likewise, authorities current on the occasion such because the Seremi of Authorities, Carlos Carrasco, and the consultant Marcela Riquelme, highlighted the position of the DT, remembering its delivery in 1924, in a time of social upheavals and progress of the union motion, and valued the labor advances throughout this authorities, such because the 40-hour Regulation, the Karin Regulation and the rise within the minimal wage.
Then the nationwide director of Labor, Pablo Zenteno, intervened, who maintained that the DT is a “consolidated establishment, whose job and mission is to make sure efficient compliance with labor laws, but in addition to strengthen social dialogue primarily based on the “We have now situations of constructing agreements with employees, union organizations and, by the way in which, employers.”
The second a part of the exercise was centered on the reminiscence of the catastrophe that on June 19, 1945 claimed the lives of 355 miners and left one other 747 badly injured contained in the El Teniente deposit. The dance and presentation with nationwide dances was carried out by the Rancagua Folkloric Ballet.