The FTIL gathered in Melo because of Coleme workers
With the participation of delegations from various parts of the country, the National Plenary of the FTIL held an important session in Cerro Largo.
The shipment to the unemployment insurance of 8 other workers in Coleme, 7 of which they are affiliated with the union, led to the leadership of the Federation with all its delegates to move to the city of Melo.
“Unfortunately we find bad news again” lament Enrique Méndez At a press conference that took place in the tent installed in front of the cooperative plant. “Another see and unilaterally the company ends up making decisions that continue to ratify this anti -union, repressive action that goes against workers’ rights. Now the distribution is outsourced in a way that is very strange to us, which leaves 8 workers again from the plant again, they say in unemployment insurance, the same as they said before the 11 layoffs. That is the reality ” said.
“Of those 8 workers who have just sent to unemployment insurance, 7 are workers affiliated with the union. What a coincidence. It is the action that we have been denouncing: of 19 workers who are no longer developing tasks in their jobs, 16 are unionized ” The leader of the Federation of Workers of the Milky Industry pointed out.
“There is a fully repressive and anti -union attitude by the company Coleme that acts absolutely apart from all kinds of actions.” held.
“We are doing all the inquiries regarding this supposed distribution, how they have been developing and how they will develop this task. Undoubtedly, you expect the answers that the Ministry of Labor had requested in the passing of the week, we found that they advanced on outsourcing and to get workers out of their jobs again ” Méndez said.
Many dilatory
Asked about the role that the Ministry is playing in this conflict, the union leader indicated that the dilatory continues. “There has been none solutions. Coleme is taking definitions with families from Melo, with neighbors, with people who are currently charging $ 11,000 basically of unemployment insurance and obviously has to look for a return to see how something to eat, who have to Make the popular pot to eat all together and have to look for the return to pay the invoices ” He pointed to the media.
“At the level of our Federation, solidarity is existing with our colleagues here in Coleme, but obviously this is not only enough, but is not a solution either” said. “The solution here is the workplace of our colleagues. We regret that today there are no actions that solve a problem as clear as the one on the table by this Executive Bran , these funds were not for what had been raised, they have not been used for the interest of Melo’s families but have been for an interest of a few that all they want is to go against workers’ rights, of what is enshrined in our Constitution of the Republic ” added.
Enrique Méndez regretted the decisions that the company is making and asked that no more funds are granted that come from the State.
From the union point of view, the fighting measures will be accentuated, measures that could extend to other sectors of national activity taking into account that the PIT CNT is not only aware of the situation, but that the development of the development of the Actions.
