The dismissals came with no notice, and while they included "voluntary retreat" programmes which gave some workers a year"s salary and health insurance, the company did not support them in finding a new job or repurposing their skills, union members say. "With us, the workers and the communities, everything that should not be done in a just transition is being done," Robinson Moreno, a union leader at the country"s largest coal workers union, Sintracarbón, says.