In the last hours, the Single Port Union and Related Branches (SUPRA) analyzed the negotiations with the Ministry of Labor and Social Security for the dismissals in Montecon, whose base union decided to extend the strike of operators and port terminals for another 48 hours.
Although the relocation of the workers who will be fired from Montecon has already been compromised, because Terminal Cuenca del Plata would reinstate 110 workers, instead of the 77 initially planned, and the National Ports Administration (ANP) would take on fifty more, of all Anyway, the Montecon union questions that the company reduced the number of monthly wages from 25 to 15.
As reported by Underlined, the workers claim that just as the company requested a period of 90 days to resume its operations, before continuing with the dismissal schedule, for that time the reduction in wages is not applied.
Support of the PIT-CNT
For its part, the PIT-CNT Representative Board issued a statement on Friday, May 13, expressing its support for the Montecon workers.
“Given the situation that is being experienced in the port terminal, where it was seen that with the government’s decision to hand over the port to a private company for 60 years, it was totally foreseeable that this could happen, since the agreement signed between the Executive and TCP was going to directly impact the loss of jobs, the port union is framed in a conflict for the defense of jobs and working conditions in the sector”, indicated the union central.
In this sense, he stressed his full support for the set of measures that SUPRA has been developing in the face of layoffs and the salary reduction announced by Montecon, “which is announced as 150 direct layoffs, but in the near future they will be the total of its direct workforce.” and outsourced”.
The PIT-CNT demands that the Executive Power “intervene in the conflict and provide the necessary guarantees so that jobs are maintained, and workers stop being hostages of the illegal agreement reached between the government and the multinational Katoen Natie.”
