The Workers’ Federation of the Meat and Allied Industry (Foica) decided to extend the stoppage of activities in industrial complexes nationwide, for another 24 hours.what increases the extension of the measure initiated at midnight on Wednesday of this week to 72 hoursGiven the will now end at midnight this Saturday August 6.
Based on a new union statement, The reason is that “we understand that the elements that are on the table today in order to unblock this conflict are insufficient”.
The measure, which this Thursday also considered a mobilization in the center of Duraznois a consequence of the Frigocerro company’s refusal to reinstate two workers laid off in July.
This scenario generates concern not only in the private sphere, but also at the government level.specifically in leaders of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTSS) and the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (MGAP).
Also this Friday, as he learned The Observer by a source of the Executive Power, the holding of a tripartite meeting scheduled for Monday, August 8, was put on hold, since the union did not agree to pause the measures; there is little optimism about a solution that contemplates both parties, at least in the short term.
Although in some plants, including the one in Frigocerro, the one involved in the conflict, there was some work activity in the last few hours, in most cases the strike occurred, the activity decreased and if the adversity was not corrected from on Monday there may be some punctual shortages of merchandise to outlets, sources from the business sector explained.
One of the concerns at the business level and the Executive is that there are several plants in which there are animals that have been waiting for the slaughter for days, with the consequent damages also for the sending producers.
Martín Cardozo, president of Foica, said this Friday night that the directors of the union will meet again this Saturday, to see what new steps will be implemented, and that “if there are no solutions, there will be more measures, if the government does not put a brake we will do it, we do not want more Frigocerros in Uruguay “.
In this report of The Observedr explains the reasons for the dismissals and the position of the refrigeration company based in Santa Bernardina, Duraznowhile In this other article, the position of the president of one of the chambers that groups the companies in the sector is exposed, who said that with these strikes they feel that they are harmed, considering themselves hostages of a situation in which they are not involved.
The union’s statement this Friday exposes the “total solidarity” of the Foica with the workers of Frigocerro and also with those of the Frigorífico Agroindustriales del Este, located in Treinta Tres, owned by the same businessman who owns Frigocerro (Diego Ortíz), “who suffer the same injustices.
The Foica document concludes by asking the State authorities to “firmly with these companies.”
Cardozo had declared early this Friday to The Observer that Frigocerro “as a company violates all laws and regulations at the national level (…) the company’s lawyer recognized irregular payments that they call a bonus but they are payments in black” and also “does not recognize the union, does not deduct the fee properly, they are suspended if they take action, they are not paid for union hours, they deduct presenteeism if they make use of union hours, they violate the collective bargaining agreement, they pay irregularly for presenteeism and seniority”. He added that he also “violates law 5,032 on safety and health” and that at the same time “he benefits from a declaration of departmental interest that allows him to have tax benefits, such as exempting the license plate and insurance of his vehicles, since 2009” .
about layoffs, Dante Alessandra, Frigocerro’s lawyer, explained that a worker was discharged from the workforce for poor performance and that an official received the same treatment for a very serious offense: altering boxes with meat to export to China..
Ortíz, owner of Frigocerro, also in dialogue with The Observer said there will be no going back in the measure of dismissalreferring specifically to the case of the worker, whose irregular act there are witnesses, as reported.
