He Acodike union maintains the conflict with the plant as a result of the 27 layoffs that occurred in March 2023 after Ancap changed the leasing conditions at the bottling plants.
That is why from this Wednesday they are carrying out new measures. For example, the sudden stoppage of activities at certain times. In addition, they prepare for Friday a “most important measure”overtook The Observerthe president of the union, Andrés Guichón.
The conflict was reactivated after the company offered four dismissed workers to have a sole proprietorship and provide services to Acodike. The union redoubled the bet and asked that after a year these workers be reinstated. The company did not accept the order.
In turn, neither in the negotiation was a solution found for outsourced workers.
In any case, Guichón said, if the conflict lasts a few days “there will be no supply problems.” “As it is only a conflict for Acodike and not for other companies, there will still be no difficulties. If it spreads it could be“, he assured.
Conflict since March
On March 31, Acodike decided to fire 27 workers after Ancap change the packaging conditions.
The change in the rules of the game to which the distributor refers is the new lease which he should have assumed since 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 He had informed that these contracts would not be renewed with the same conditions and for that reason he made a call for bids for the next rental contracts.
Acodike issued a statement explaining 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.
There, the union declared conflict and occupied the bottling plant on several occasions. After several months of negotiation, the company opted to reinstate six of them, something that was not accepted by the union.
