They stop Thursday and Friday at the three tire factories: the conflict has been going on for 120 days

The Tire union (SUTNA) it will paralyze a full shift in the activity of the three roofing factories that are in the country on Thursday and Fridayprotesting the lack of agreement with the companies in the request for wage adjustment and reduction of the working day.

This new hiatus will be for a full production shift, both Thursday and Friday. The conflict has been going on for 120 days and none of the parties involved so far have shown any signs of wanting closed positions.

Nor was there any resolution on the conflict by the Ministry of Labor of the Nationwhose Secretary of Labor has held conciliatory meetings for four months now, without result. The last meeting was this Tuesday, after which the union led Alessandro Crespo decided the new unemployment.

The country’s three tire factories are located on the outskirts of Buenos Aires: they are Pirelli (blackbird), Bridgestone (Lavallol) e destiny (San Ferdinando). Among the three they send some 500,000 tires per monthbut since the trade union conflict started production of between 1.3 and 1.4 million tires would have stoppedas estimated last week by the owner of Fate, Javier Madanés Quintanilla.

The entrepreneur, also owner of Aluar, said in a note to Radio Miter that one of the consequences of this shortage is price increase tires. “It’s hard for me to get it on my own,” she added.

According to Madanes Quintanilla, the production price of a small car cover today is around 17,000 pesos. The businessman added that the current market price of this product is “between 50,000 and 60,000 pesos”.

Interesting, in a context of widespread scarcity due to a lack of dollars, in the case of hedges the absence is mainly due to a trade union conflict. According to Madanes, automotive terminals are capable of doing this import tires to ensure their production.

“Factories are becoming special import authorizations, mainly from Brazil. It is not debatable, why it is worse that everything stopsthe businessman said.

From some tire outlets they partially denied Madanes. On the off, sources from that industry have assured the prices they have not risen to those levels. “Just look at the Mercado Libre how much the size 13 tires are, you don’t have to believe it. There are many offers at 25,000 pesos. But it’s true there are missing“, they added.

The trade union conflict began in May, when parity was still in effect this year, and since then there have been more than ten direct force measures. It also supports the Tire Union a partial block in accesses of the three factories. “Whoever they decide goes in and out. It’s like an avenue where they leave a lane free for a few hours“, described a manager of one of the factories.

The SUTNA credit consists of a salary shift 5% above inflation and an increase of 200% for hours worked on weekends. For the business side, the wage adjustment it is a negotiable matterbut they have been uncompromising about the demand to increase the payment of hours on weekends by 200%.

“What is claimed, in fact, it is a reduction in working hours and that more staff be hired “, they stated before the Ministry of Labor.

In June, the three companies had offered a salary increase of 65% from 1st July, and an improvement in the hours worked on weekends. Proposal rejected by the union. Since then, the conflict has continued without companies having applied increases: workers, now with the parity expired two months ago, They are loading like in May.

From the Ministry of Labor of the portfolio he directs Claudio Moroni the compulsory conciliation was issued at the beginning of the conflict, which expired in June. Since then, the government He has not intervened anymore.

The new strike will be according to the following schedule: in Bridgestone, Thursday afternoon and Friday night shift. In Pirelli, Thursday morning and Friday night on shifts. And in Fate the interruption will be on Thursday with the morning shift and on Friday with the evening shift.