Conflict at the tire factory bridgeston with the Tire Union (SUTNA) is escalating at full speed, with a disruption of activities that took place on Thursday and the announcement of three eight-hour strikes each throughout this week which begins, in the establishment located in Llavallol.
The first shot will be Monday evening and will continue until the start of tomorrow’s shift on Tuesday. The other stops are scheduled between the morning and the start of the night shift Wednesday and the third strike was announced for the Friday in the afternoon.
SUTNA’s claim is against it a new batch of worker layoffswhich was completed at the end of last week and is being added to the dismissal of eight workers in early March.
According to Bridgestone, the two rounds of layoffs they were right and the positions that have become vacant have been filled by new hires.
The layoffs overlap with another conflict for the union it’s the same and that according to the company cpray with a separate ropewhich focuses on environmental and working conditions from the Llavallol factory; started at the end of February, in the middle of heat wave which lasted until March 21st, and since then the Provincial Ministry of LabourTHE Superintendence of Labor Risks and finally the Ministry of Labor of the Nation.
In the midst of this escalating conflict, the company announced this weekend that following a shutdown on the 27th “is at risk” He link of productivity you pay each month. According to Bridgestone, until April 26 “we were able to announce that the production bonus exceeded 10% of salary earnings”. It is a bond that is liquidated in form monthly.
Bridgestone is also the only tire factory in the country to pay bonuses to its operators “profit sharing”. Last year I had paid more than one million pesos per workerr, while this year the data was not disclosed, for “safety reasons” for workers and their families. But the payment of that bonus already materialized in the last two weeks of April.
According to the specialized media, the remuneration of that annual bonus, this year, was not in line with inflation above 100% spent in the last twelve months. “The plant was practically paralyzed for almost five months and that it affected profits,” was the only thing company sources said.
Last year, SUTNA was embroiled in more than five months of conflict with the three tire factories located in the country. That claim, of nature wageit was defined after the intervention of the Ministry of the Economy.
Bridgestone is a tire manufacturer of Japanese origin that acquired the American company Firestone in 1988 and almost a decade later, in 1997, began producing tires under the Japanese brand in the Llavallol plant located at the intersection of the Camino de Cintura with the Avenue Antártida Argentina. It depends on a regional company based in the United States, in the city of Nashville, Tennessee. In 2019, before the pandemic, from Llavallol One million tires were exported annually.
From SUTNA, which responds politically to worker polehe said that Bridgestone “intends to dictate that regardless of who is right, it is enough to push the workers harder because we give in to their absurd claims and then get away with no valid argument”.
Added the union chaired by its general secretary, Alexander Crespo: “This simply cannot be allowed, every one of the workers would suffer the consequences fall under tyranny of an arrogant and arrogant employer who tries to do what he wants”.
Source: Clarin
