Workers from the La Sin Rival Bakery demonstrate in front of the pasta factory this noon on December 24. Measure It is due to a breach by the company of advancing the Christmas bonussaid to The Observer the coordinator of the Mesa del Bread, Luis Echevarría.
According to Echevarría, last Friday, the owner Mónica Calvar promised to advance them $10,000 of the Christmas bonus that they had to collect by December 20 and it has not yet materialized. “As of today, the payment date is not known. We are at 24 and there is not a peso in the bank. Those who have children do not have to put a sweet bread on the table or a milanese at 12 at night, not even a gift. Play with the need of the people“said the union leader.
In addition to the demonstration, Echevarría announced that the bakery workers will go into an assembly with a strike of four hours per shift. And as of January 1, if the situation does not change, they are considering entering into a general conflict in the sector. This includes, in addition to La Sin Rival, the workers of the bakeries Pagnifique, Friopan, Pangiorno, Masa Madre, Panadería Palmar, Panificadora Guichón, among others.
bread table
This is how the workers manifest themselves
For his part, this Friday They also filed a criminal complaint against the company’s former accountant for alleged fraudulent administration and apparently criminal acts. “She accuses that the accountant was to blame for all this disaster,” said Echevarría.
On Thursday night, the PIT-CNT issued a statement stating that “in less than a month La Sin Rival must close the establishment.”
Echevarría, in charge of reporting what happened to the PIT-CNT, stated that day that La Sin Rival is not complying with the payment of salaries or with the areas of dialogue and defined the critical financial situation that the company is experiencing as worrisome. “The closure may be imminent and will generate the loss of hundreds of jobs. To date, La Sin Rival, owes salaries and licenses of several workers and workers and there is no date for the payment of the bonuses corresponding whose term expires in these days”, pointed out the leader.
bread table
This is how the workers manifest themselves
According to the communiqué from the trade union, this follows from what happened in the last meeting in the framework of the Wage Councils, and as a result of the non-presentation of the documentation that had been established in a previous meeting with the company authorities. . In this sense, Echevarría recalled that the company representatives had communicated that they would manage a loan and for that they would put the property where the bakery is located as collateral.
