Despite the agreement reached last week by United Argentine Port Union (SUP) and Puerto Rosario Terminal (TUP) to reincorporate twenty workers made redundant, entrance to the terminal continued on Wednesday blocked by a group of workers
The situation resulted yesterday in a formal request presented by the Federation of Industrialists of Santa Fe (FISFE) to Governor Omar Perotti where they ask for “urgent action” to ensure that “the free entry/exit of goods and people” was ordered.
After tense negotiations over the request for wage recomposition, the conflict escalated last November after the sacking of 25 workers.
Last week the company that controls the terminal, a company set up by the firm vincent and the Chilean abroadformalized an agreement with Supa representatives to reinstate twenty of the sacked workers, 90% wage increases. with review clause and payment of strike days.
The agreement, held at the headquarters of the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security of the Nation, was instead rejected by the five workers who were not reinstated and by his comrades, which he exhibited internally within the port union.
that group keeps the block at the entrance to the terminalTherefore, despite the announcement made, the activity could not yet be resumed. “What they are doing is unacceptable,” said the general secretary of the United Argentine Port Union (SUPA), César Aybar.
In the agreement stipulated with the intervention of Minister Kelly Olmos, it was established that the licensee will receive compensation, even when the company claims they were unrelated to the lawsuit.
The situation of paralysis in the port terminal affects the production chain. According to a complaint by the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA), around a thousand containers remain blocked without being able to be shipped.
The authorities of the Ministry of Labor have asked the Administrative Body of Puerto Rosario (Enapro) to prepare a detail on the extent of the millionaire losses caused by the conflict.
Several companies, such as the automaker General Motors, are looking forward to the conflict because their production could be affected.
Santa Fe industrialists fear that part of the local operation, in the event that the conflict cannot be resolved urgently, will move to the Zárate terminal. This is why they asked for Perotti’s intervention.
From Fisfe they stated that the blockade “is affecting constitutional rights and leads to irreparable economic losses for the province and the nation”.
For this reason, they asked for “urgent intervention” by the Government with the effective application of the tools available to the provincial state “to provide for free movement at the terminal entrance.
From the Santa Fe Labor Portfolio they engaged in the new request by Santa Fe industrialists to request the intervention of a prosecutor to try to order the eviction at the entrance to the port terminal.
Source: Clarin
