The Buenos Aires company Lácteos Vidal operates with less than a third of its workforce.
The Lácteos Vidal company seems stuck in a dead end. Due to a trade union conflict, a factory that normally has 46 employees has been operating with only twelve people for more than two weeks.
It is a factory in the city of Moctezuma, in Buenos Aires, near Carlos Casares, which they arrive every day from the dairies in the area. 150,000 liters of milk to be processed, with an approximate value of 8 million pesos. But with the budget decimated, I’m only able to process 40 percent of that volume.
The Association of Dairy Industry Workers of the Argentine Republic (Atilra) was established in that small town. a field to be claimed for the recategorization of four employees and the inclusion in the agreement of two others, something that is said to cost the company 550,000 pesos a month. But company representatives have decided that they will not negotiate until the union has removed the curtains and the employees are back to work. The positions of both sides remain firm and there seems to be no more room for dialogue.
“They can shut down the plant because you make massive layoffs, you don’t pay wages or contributions, but not because of a poorly ranked kid. This got out of hand, you can complain but no threats. Myself with the plant blocked I cannot negotiate”, Said Arturo Díaz, technical director and plant representative a few days ago, in dialogue with Rural trumpet.
And he added: “They say that the struggle is for the workers but in reality it is to the detriment of all of them because the plants will not last and in the long run they will lose their jobs”.
When asked about the estimated loss, he says that the calculation is very difficult because you have to add the cost of transport to the plants and deduct the price at which you can finally charge the derived milk. But what worries him most is the loss he will suffer in his commercial chain in a few weeks due to a lack of products to deliver.
“My chain is the most important thing I have, and at some point I will run out of goods, that’s where the real damage of all this will be seen,” explained the director of Lácteos Vidal, whose strong product is mozzarella
Source: Clarin
