The Private Union of Oil and Gas of Río Negro, Neuquén and La Pampa started this sunday evening at total unemployment All in all Dead cow. From the union they denounce workplace accidents and assure: “When the patience is over, action begins”.
“Tired of tragic accidents that cost human lives or leave workers maimed and in the absence of responses from companies and the national government to put an end to this situation, last Thursday we decided to launch a definite fight plan”, said the union through a The measure is for an indefinite period.
As early as late April, oil workers linked to the field had expressed their anger at the “work accidents”. It was after the death of a tanker in a truck accident. That time, they questioned the poor condition of the streets surrounding Vaca Muerta and executed road cuts 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 17, 51, 57, 151 and Autovía Norte, in Río Negro, La Pampa and Neuquén.
This Sunday, they returned to the fray with a cessation of activities which began at 20:00 this Sunday. The trigger was the accident at work of an operator who lost an arm.
“We are sick of seeing how meaningless discussions go on for a long time with the sole purpose of delay action. The disregard of business people for life and people’s integrity is alarming. The miserable indifference of those with decision-making power costs or destroys the lives of workers and this is unacceptable,” they explained.
They have assured that the claims have been going on for years and have asked “not only that urgent measures be taken”, but also the presence of the Ministry of Labour and the Superintendence of Labor Risks in the area to suspend the “taking desktop decisions and get to know the area”.
Furthermore, they denounced that there is no “training plan or accident prevention by the ART, which are controlled by the SRT and the Ministry of Labour”.
“Workers are a bunch who contribute money and only serve to break production records, while we break death records“, concluded the union.
The incident that led to the total strike in Vaca Muerta
After the death of Gustavo Riquelme (48), which took place in late April, last week Vaca Muerta was shocked by another accident, in which a worker lost an arm.
On Wednesday 17, a member of the SAI 651 team of the Agua del Cajon, in Plottierimmediately to pulley accident and “literally he cut off his hand“, said Marcelo Rucci, secretary general of the union, a Radio LU5.
Rucci also underlined the flaws in the assistance systems: the 29-year-old worker was taken by private car to the hospitalin the absence of an official emergency vehicle.
“He had lost a lot of blood,” added the union leader, who thanked the rest of the workers for “saving the life” of his colleague. Furthermore, he regretted that the mutilation will prevent the injured person from continuing in office. “A mutilated comrade is a comrade who it can no longer work and that leaves a family in a vulnerable situation,” he said.
Hours after the episode, Rucci announced he was calling a strike. Meanwhile, the union has declared itself in a “permanent assembly” and has announced that it will take “direct action measures spontaneous“.
In addition to the cases of Riquelme and the worker who suffered a mutilated arm, in the last month an operator has received a strong head shot and, for your attention, Also must have been transported to the city of Neuquén in a private van.
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Source: Clarin
