The Santa Fe government has ordered the presence of security forces inside the plant owned by the Sancor dairy cooperative in the city of Sunchales, following a long labor conflict that usually paralyzes activities.
The decision to send police forces was confirmed in Télam by the spokespersons of the provincial Security portfolio, after the local Labor Minister, Roald Báscolo, assured, after a visit to the plant, that they will not allow blockades by various trade union groups .
The measure aims guarantee the labor rights of employees who do not comply with coercive measuresand also that of the attackers.
“We respect the right to strike, despite complaints from workers who have not received their full wages,” Báscolo said.
“But we also respect the right to work of those who want it,” he added.
The Sancor plant in Sunchales crosses a long-running labor dispute between the administrators of the cooperative and the sector union Atilra.
The union has ordered forceful action over delays in canceling its members’ salaries, which, in some cases, have paralyzed the dairy company’s main plant.
Given this situation, after the visit of the Minister of Labor last week, the government of Massimiliano Pullaro decided to send security forces to the plant to avoid blockages.
The measurement was approxprepared by the Anti-Blockade Business Movement (MEAB)who thanked the governor “for the police presence in the plant, to prevent union gangsters from mistreating Sancor workers eager to work.”
In his account on social networks he continues extortion against trade union delegates.”
For the body of Atilra delegates in Sancor, however, the presence of the police means “an escalation of intimidation”.
In an open letter addressed to Governor Pullaro, the delegates denounced that Minister Báscolo committed “a serious violation of his duties as a public official” and that he tried to “stifle our demand for jobs”.
The college of delegates justified these statements by underlining that the Minister of Labor himself recognized the delay in the payment of salaries and that, among his legal functions, there is that of “monitoring compliance with current legislation on labor” and ” apply sanctions for those who do not comply with the rules governing work”.
In another paragraph of the letter it is specified that “the public, partial and illegitimate declarations of the provincial Minister of Labor do nothing but contribute to increasing the discomfort that any collective labor conflict entails”.
“We are faced with a clear attempt to stifle our fair demand for work,” they concluded.
Source: Télam
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Source: Clarin
