Fate owner said if union blocs continue “it will be easier to find remains of Noah’s Ark than tires”

In the midst of a union blockade at the Fate car tire factory, the owner of the company, Javier Madanes Quintanilla, warned that if the situation persists “it will be easier to find remains of Noah’s Ark than tires.” He also confided that he himself has a hard time procuring rubber bands.

The trade union conflict has been going on for several months and in June, for example, a national strike left the country’s three tire factories without production: Destiny, Pirelli and Bridgestone.

So far there is no solution in sight and that is why Quintanilla has come out to express his concern. You have indicated that your company runs at 40% capacity due to blocking.

“The conflict It’s been 115 days now. Right now all three floors are blocked, with which you can neither enter nor exit and it is up to the blocker’s discretion to grant an exception, “said the entrepreneur.

In the statements a radio machine gunthe owner of Aluar also added: “We made a presentation to the prosecutor, but the problem is that the prosecutor interprets that the block It is a popular demonstration with which it is not appropriate to act“.

In this sense, he warned that procuring spare parts for a car has become an odyssey. “You have to go out with a magnifying glass to search or cross the Paraguay River in a canoe. I’m having a hard time solving the problem on my own“, commented.

“It will be easier for him to find remains of Noah’s Ark than tires“, the entrepreneur replied to the question about the market situation.

On the possibility of reaching an agreement with the union, Madanes Quintanilla was blunt: “We presented an offer above the cost of living and he was rejected by the union. Here there is a deterioration in the way of respecting the agreement, “complained the industrialist.

Regarding the prices that are paid in the tire market, he was blunt: “It’s an absolute, shameful scam“.

Madanes Quintanilla explained that since they are producing well below their means “there is a shortage and the few who have sell very expensive, recomposing two or three times“.

According to the owner of Fate, the factory price of the smallest wheels is on the order of $ 17,000 or $ 18,000, as the audience reaches between $ 50,000 and $ 60,000.

As for the supply of cars, he specified that “the factories are obtaining special import permits, basically from Brazil. It is not debatable, because it is worse that everything stops“.

The measures began on 17 May with four hours of strike in the three plants and continued with seven full-time strikes (20 and 26 May, 3, 6, 9, 16 and 20 June).

as far as he could tell ClarioneSo far, the parties have shown no intention of bringing the positions closer. The union has not moved from its claim and has even intensified its protest: it has gone from demonstrations at the doors of the factories to cuts to the Pan-American and Congress.

The crisis is such that during the first days of June, Renault and Nissan they were left without tires for 48 hours for the Alaskan and Frontier pick-ups, assembled on the same production line at the Renault plant in Santa Isabel, Cordoba.

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