The port union has been carrying out various protest activities with work stoppages, cutting of overtime hours and guards, in repudiation of the announcement of the dismissal of 150 workers of the Montecon company -operator of the public areas of the Port of Montevideo-, and against the salary reduction of up to 50% of the salaries of the members of the workforce, proposed by the employer.
Within this framework, SUPRA will evaluate the paralysis of all ports in the country for 72 hours.
The port workers union decided to deepen the fighting stockings as of Monday 9.
extremely serious
The member of the Executive of SUPRA and the Executive Secretariat of the PIT-CNT, Vanessa Peirano, expressed that the situation is “extremely serious”.
“For a long time we denounced and alerted the population that this was going to happen. The then Minister of Transport, Luis Alberto Heber, promised in Parliament not only that there would be no layoffs but, on the contrary, that more than 1,000 genuine jobs would be created,” said the union leader, as recorded by the PIT-CNT web page.
He recalled that Heber said that the agreement reached between the government and Katoen Natie “was going to generate more than 1,000 genuine jobs, while questioning those who warned about said firm, accusing them of ‘lack of vision’ and not seeing ‘the big party ‘” Peirano lamented.
