This Monday is a key day for the conflict that the supergas union maintains with the companies Riogas and Acodike for him dismissal of more than 50 workers between the two. ANDthe Ministry of Labor prepared a proposal for the case of Acodike and a response is expected in the next few hours. In the case of Riogas, there will be a meeting this Monday morning and the Ministry of Labor will also transmit a proposal to the company.
The leader of the supergas union Andres Guichon said to The Observer It is incredible that the two distributors take the same measure a month after the start of the harvest due to the arrival of the cold. “In winter, not even activating the plants with all the full staff is enough to collect the demand,” he said.
Guichón said that Riogas hired the same number of workers that he fired on Friday. In this company, 26 workers from the bottling plant were dismissed. In Acodike there were 27.
“Companies are leaving people on the streets, blowing up the entire sector and they are not concerned that there will be a generalized conflict that leaves people without supplies“, he claimed.
The union is still in conflict and will await the responses of the two companies to the government proposal. Then you will decide how to continue the conflict.
What Riogas and Acodike said
Riogas pointed out that as of March 1 and “for reasons totally unrelated to Riogas, the contractual and commercial conditions that governed supergas bottling for 15 years have changed.”
According to the statement, this situation implies that the company is facing new and “significant leasing and investment costs” at the bottling plant and financial costs for purchasing supergas on credit. That adds up to less packaging volume.
The change in the rules of the game to which the distributor refers is the new lease contract that it had to assume from March 1 for one of the two supergas bottling plants that are owned by Ancap.
Until February 28, the plants were leased by Gasur (40% owned by Ancap, 30% by Acodike and 30% by Riogas). Last year Ancap had informed that these contracts would not be renewed with the same conditions and for this reason it made a call for bids for the next rental contracts.
Acodike issued a statement in which it explained the dismissal of 14 effective workers and the rest temporary. “Unfortunately, in this case reality has shown that, despite these efforts, certain roots of wanting to keep jobs that do not add value to the client, force structural changes to maintain the survival of the company in a responsible manner,” he said. acodike.
In turn, he affirmed that this reduction guarantees “the source of employment for those people who occupy the necessary positions to cover the volume of current demand, that is, positions that add value in the productive chain of the sector.”
