Unilever v. Union No. 1/cut: relevance of a settlement agreement

IntroductionUnilever Chile scc Limitada (Unilever Chile) is a Chilean subsidiary of Unilever, an English-Dutch multinational consumer goods company headquartered in London. Union No. 1 of Unilever’s Chemical, Food, Distribution, Services, and Similar Industries is a Chilean union that on 31 December 2018 had 328 members. Workers’ United Center of Chile (Central Unitaria de Trabajadores, or cut) is a workers’ organization comprising 533 entities, totaling—jointly with unions of informal workers and self-employed—740,000 members.On 15 April 2019, Union No. 1 and cut submitted a complaint to the Chilean National Contact Point (