The drama for Vidal Dairy’s form doesn’t stop. Justice has ordered that the company reinstate the 29 workers fired for blocking the plant for more than a month. And the Carlos Casares firm appealed the court ruling.
“We won’t. Before we close or disband,” he fired Alejandra Bada Vazquezbefore the consultation of Rural Clarin whether he would respect the sentence. “We fired them for loss of confidence,” she added.
According to the PMI owner, they have hired 23 new workers and are working at full production, both for the domestic market and for export.
Last Friday it was learned that appeal no. 9 of the Chamber of Labor obliges the dairy to do so reinstate 29 dismissed employees which blocked the plant in 2022.
“By virtue of what was decided by Section IX of the Chamber of Labour, the defendant is summoned to court, so that he proceeds with the immediate reintegration of the workers concerned”, the sentence specifies.
Likewise, the text ensures that you are owed $10,000 a day for each day in arrears for each of the workers you fail to comply with, “which will accrue from any default and until effective reinstatement.”
“We will continue to fight until the end. We’d rather die standing than live on our knees“, said Bada Vázquez. “We fired them for loss of confidence. They have committed various crimes which are all the root cause that is being investigated and there is still no solution,” he said.
The owner of Lácteos Vidal noted that two criminal complaints are pending against the dismissed: IPP 17-00-004240-22/00 and IPP 17-00-003792-22/00 pending before the Functional Unit for Education and process no. 3 of the Judicial Department of Trenque Lauquen, Buenos Aires.
“Vidal Dairy treats foodstuffs – milk and its derivatives – as impracticable and inadmissible, allowing the entry of workers who have acted against the company and its collaborators, unable to guarantee that the products that are made are for workers in whom all trust has been lostsince, in the face of any manipulation, consumers could be directly affected”, reads the dismissal telegram.
“The censored conduct had the connotations of deprivation of the exercise of rights on the assets owned by said company, added to the economic losses in unsold material, damage to commercial and trust relationships with the customers of this party, affecting the image of this last in the market, among other various negative consequences,” the letter adds.
The conflict between Lácteos Vidal and Atilra began in mid-July last year with the union’s request for the recategorization of fourteen employees of the factory located in the city of Moctezuma, in western Buenos Aires. On 20 July, the mandatory conciliation was issued and work at the factory resumed. But then, on August 11, Atilra camped again in front of the plant. The situation between the two parties worsened up to the point of layoffs of 29 workers.
The Association of small and medium-sized dairy enterprises (Apymel) has expressed its solidarity with the company and has launched harsh statements against the actions of justice, describing the situation experienced by many companies in the sector vis-à-vis the unions.
“Still, We see how SMEs are held hostage to direct action measures by powerful trade unionss, using and distorting the constitutional right to strike in a spurious and inappropriate way, to obtain results that are difficult for them to access with claims or debates through the legal channels and within the competent ambit that the basic law itself establishes”, they affirmed is a statement .
And they added: “By this improper method it is intended to break the will of the employerflagrantly hindering the right to free trade and undermining the exercise of free enterprise. This abusive and repeated act makes it clear how our SMEs are defenseless and forced to respect what is imposed on them, in absolute violation of the rights and guarantees protected by the Argentine national Constitution”.
For Apymel, the position taken by Atilra “endangers the continuity of small and medium-sized enterprises, and the maintenance of the sources of employment that are generated in them”.
Source: Clarin
