On 17 March 2025, in Santiago (Metropolitana), unionized Legal Assistance Corporation (CAJ) workers marched to the Ministry of Justice to express frustration with authorities' reticence to comply with a wage standardization protocol agreed to in August 2023. Protesters delivered a letter and threatened to go on strike in April.

Supply-chain Risk Briefing

1. Summary

On March 17, 2025, union members from the Legal Aid Corporation (CAJ) conducted a peaceful protest toward the Ministry of Justice in Santiago, Chile. This represents a low-risk social conflict situation, protesting the non-implementation of wage standardization protocols agreed upon in August 2023, with a strike warning for April.

2. Supply-chain impact

• Limited direct impact: As a labor dispute in the legal services sector, immediate physical impact on major export industries such as mining and manufacturing is minimal
• Potential delays in administrative and legal services: During a CAJ strike, concerns over slower processing of corporate legal support, contract reviews, and regulatory compliance-related tasks
• Need to monitor social spillover effects: If public sector wage conflicts spread to other industries, overall labor-management relationship instability in Chile may increase
• Consideration of capital region concentration: Potential for indirect disruptions to legal and administrative operations of major corporate headquarters located in Santiago

3. Watch points

• Whether April strike materializes: Need to track CAJ union's implementation of strike warning and progress in government-side negotiations
• Chain reaction in other public sectors: Required monitoring of solidarity movements from other government agency unions with similar wage standardization issues