Specialized Prosecutor’s Office requested the Suca that stopped for 24 hours
Surprising and more rigorous controls by the Ministry of Labor and the creation of a Prosecutor’s Office specialized in occupational accidents were the main points contained in the union claims platform.
So far this year, the industry already accounts for 13 deceased workers. Beyond the automatic partial strike when a fatal accident occurs, the Suca defined a total stoppage of activities for 24 hours that took place this Wednesday, September 24.
“We had a 24 -hour national strike decreed by the union due to the deaths in the industry” held Roque Calcagno.
“We have had an important accident. revealed.
“Apart from the measures that we have already taken, we have been making assemblies consisting of the workers for two months, we want the population to know why the guild is stopping” said.
The president of the departmental Cerro Largo recalled some points that have been claimed for several years. “We have some claims that are old and others that we hope to specify in the new agreement. Ours must be one of the industries that has the most regulation referred to security: we have decrees and security delegates, but also companies play in this because in the absence of work they sometimes do not give all security implements. We have the Law of Criminal Business Responsibility. commented to The daily professional.
“There is a traffic accident and there is a deceased already acts justice to the touch and in the construction industry a worker dies and we have no one to make a guarantor who would have to be the Prosecutor’s Office for the issue of the Business Criminal Responsibility Law.” express.
“When a worker dies, a family remains with nothing, unprotected, the union in that is supportive, an hour of work is discounted, but none of that returns life” He pointed out.
From Snca they demand inspections by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security. “In Cerro Largo, and I suppose that in the entire interior it will be similar, we do not have inspective body. We have to call Montevideo, ask for an inspection. The last one we requested delayed 2 months to arrive. Sometimes even the work ended. One of the things that we claim is that there are inspectors in all departments” solicitous.
“We intend to comply with the security decree and that the companies respect the current labor laws. Then there is our work, which we do from the union, because there are many changas. There are colleagues who are well tied, they are above a scaffold that is not well anchored, it has no railings, it does not have rolle The union leader emphasized.
“There have been deaths in important works” He warned. “Companions have to understand that they cannot throw them out if they do not want to work without the implements because they are laws that we have, but in reality companies also play with unemployment: a person accesses a work after having expected year and hugs whatever. The last death was in the construction of a new shopping in Montevideo, in a large company. accurate.
Both unemployment and concentration in Plaza Constitución had very good adhesion of workers. “Companions are becoming aware that this is for everyone because going to work is one thing and returning in a drawer is a very different one. Even today Chinese partners joined” Roque Calcagno highlighted.
