The conflict in the port of Rosario could go towards a solution by early next week, business sector sources assured this Friday.
“Monday the deal would be signed, at noon, at the Ministry of Labour”. The message quickly circulated in a WhatsApp chat of members of the Santa Fe Industrial Federation (FISFE), as soon as a meeting at the Ministry of Labor in Buenos Aires concluded.
Managers of the port concessionaire took part in this meeting TPRunion representatives SUPAportfolio officers headed by Rachel Olmos and also the Santa Fe Minister of Labor, Juan Manuel Pusineri.
“An offer has been made by the dealer to the union and now we have to hope it is dealt with in the assembly,” official sources said on Friday.
The evening before he had been the Minister of the Economy, Sergio Massa, which sent a similar message to the executives of the Association of Automotive Manufacturers (ADEFA). “The conflict it’s about to unlock”, Massa told representatives of the automakers, a sector that has various containers with retained auto parts following the prolonged measure of force in the port terminal of Rosario.
The beginning of the conflict, a month ago, was when the United Port Union (SUPA) called for parities to be reopened, with a 100% pay rebalancing, after which TPR fired 25 employees.
The negotiations took place over the weeks. The TPR concessionaire has been reconstituted, in which the Vicentín group and the Chilean Ultramar are partners 20 of the operators. Negotiations also took place with the SUPA, of which he is the general secretary Caesar AybarPayment of allowance for the other five fired.
However, this negotiation was rejected by a sector of the union itself, which unknown the trade union leadership negotiation of the SUPA and stated that reincorporation should cover everyone the redundant It was at that point that the Ministry of Labor issued the compulsory conciliation, That it wasn’t even respected.
The activity of the port of Rosario has been completely paralyzed as a result of this protest for more than a month, in the units of the port dedicated to container loading and unloading.
According to a note that the Santa Fe Industrial Federation sent to Minister Olmos, it is estimated that there are more than 1,000 containers which were held within the port.
Among other goods, it has emerged that car parts are being held there bound for the factories of General Motors, Renault and Nissan that they had to reschedule their production.
Also in the port of Rosario there are deposits of fertilizers which are intended for producers who need to start planting corn, as well as containers with bottles of corn and soybean oil for export.
The Union of Industrialists (UIA) has also called on the national government to declare “essential activity” at the port, in order to force the parties to resume their activities, as had happened in September in the port of Buenos Aires and in the Exolgan terminal.
This Friday, five other entities joined the corporate claims: the Chamber of Port and Maritime Activitiesthe Chamber of the Petroleum Industry (CIARO), the Cereal Exporters Centerthe Chamber of Fertilizers and Agrochemicals (CIAFA) and the Chamber of Private Commercial Ports.
In the note, addressed to Minister Olmos, the entities indicated that “part of their commercial activity is prevented”, which in some cases “involves violations of contracts abroad”.
They also underlined that “unfortunately once again there is a risk that Argentina will acquire a bad reputation as an origin and that, in particular, the Port of Rosario, be considered a port dirtywith the serious effects that this entails”.
But the central fact of that note was that due to the port conflict, a quantity of fertilizer is withheld could jeopardize the next corn crop.
“Clearly, this will generate damage not only to the sellers of these products and to the producers, but to the entire Argentine economy in a year in which there will be a need for foreign exchange, a situation that is exacerbated by the significant losses caused by the drought,” they added. businessmen. “This type of conflict not only affects the parties apparently involved, but also affects society as a whole, putting at risk the Argentine origin, the country’s credibility abroad, foreign exchange income and, ultimately, the welfare of the population”.
Source: Clarin
