The South African delegation was addressed by the President of the Central Unitaria De Trabajadores De Chile (CUT) who provided the information on the composition of the membership, which includes the following: . 80 percent of the members are from services sector. . 20 percent of the members are from the industrial sector. . Workers are organized by companies as opposed to South Africa where they are organized by industry. . Not more than 50 percent of Chilean workers are unionized. . The majority of Chilean workers are contract workers. . Only 6.7 percent of labour bargains collectively, the rest depend on the goodwill of employers. . Codelco has 15 000 permanent workers and 32 000 workers on contract. The permanent workers have good salary packages and conditions of employment but the same cannot be said about the contract workers. Coldeco surrenders all profits to the State for social programs and it has a good safety record. . CUT feels that the Mining Council is not interested in contributing towards ratifying international labour agreements that determine labour standards. . CUT is of the view that the country is focusing on copper exports to the possible detriment of the economy, as it happened in the 19th century when the focus was on nitrate export until Germany invented the synthetic nitrate resulting to the economic crisis in Chile. CUT therefore recommends diversification in trade. . On the well publicized accident of 33 miners that were trapped underground, CUT commented that the workers were employed by a medium sized private company that employed 400 workers in a very high risk operation but with higher than average salaries.