This raises the number of workers laid off to over 500 in two weeks in Region 10, along with the layoffs by Camanchaca at its Tome plant in Region 8.
“We discussed this issue with the company in October last year and were told that, due to the crisis caused by the infectious salmon anemia (ISA) virus, there was going to be a wave of layoffs," said John Hurtado, the president of the “Union es Fuerza” union of Cultivos Marinos Chiloe.
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