The Joining single tires (SUTNA) announced it will once again paralyze the three roofing factories operating in the country, less than three months after signing a wage deal that ended one of the labor disputes longest in recent years.
According to the union he heads Alexander Crespothe trigger for this measure of force was the “layoffs” at the factory bridgeston, where this week They have already gone on strike for 48 hours. But SUTNA also denounced alleged “arrogant and arbitrary conduct” of the other two plants in the sector, Destiny and Pirelli.
For this SUTNA has asked for the total interruption of the activities in the three factories from 10am on Wednesday 21 until the shift starts tomorrow Thursday.
This new measure of strength was denounced by Fate in harsh terms. “Fate, the largest tire manufacturer in Argentina, rejects the attempt by the SUTNA union involve the entire sector in a confrontation that would take place with another of the companiesAnd he added: “It is incomprehensible that the union, after having promoted a conflict that has affected the supply of tires in the country for more than five months, should fall back into these preventive methods of work and production”.
SUTNA’s conflict with tire manufacturers began in Marchdemanding a wage adjustment and a 200% increase in hours worked on weekends.
The producers agreed to discuss the salary increase but refused to pay the increase in weekend hours, with which the conflict escalated throughout the fall and winter. For six months there were a few 20 breaks in all three factories, the last of which lasted more than a week and resulted in the temporary closure of two of the factories, Bridgestone, in Llavallol, and Pirelli, in Merlo.
The other factory is Fate, with a factory in San Fernando, the largest of the three and the only one with local capital. your master, Javier Madanes Quintanilla, he estimated that throughout the conflict the factories stopped producing half gum that they had planned for the whole year, with which not only the supply of the internal market was lost, but also 25% destined for export.
Five months later, the conflict escalates: a delegation led by Crespo employed for 24 hours on the second floor of the National Directorate of Labor Relations and called an indefinite strike until the factories agreed to the request.
The attitude of the then Minister of Labour, Claudius Moronihas been criticized by both trade unions and employers. Finally, the then new Minister of the Economy intervened, Sergio Massa, who proposed to do it fully open imports of tyres. But who ended up being the real mediator of the conflict was the head of the Truckers union and secretary of the CGT, Pablo Moianoof good dialogue with Crespo.
An agreement was reached on September 30 whereby SUTNA was awarded a salary reset of 66% on parity expired in the middle of the year, as well as a bond of 100,000 pesos per worker and a clause guaranteeing wage recomposition type “triggers”. above inflation.
However, a dispute at the Bridgestone plant is rolling back that deal backwards. According to SUTNA, five workers were made redundant of the Final Testing sector.
Bridgestone, in a statement, He denied there were any layoffs. “We would like to clarify that none of the measures taken by the company are related to a change in working methods or conditions,” the Japanese-owned company said. “On Saturday 3 December it was decided to work according to the established workflow, which is 4+1 for more than 3,500 seats and 3+1 for amounts equal to or less than 3,500. IS It’s the way we’ve worked for the last few years.if, therefore, we do not understand or support the untimely and unjustified actions of the SUTNA in the field of final control”.
Source: Clarin
