The workers of the National Service of Agri-Food Health and Quality (Senasa) resolved to deepen their fight plan, in demand for wage improvements and other union demands, and launched a national strike for 12 days from the first minute of next Monday.
In addition, ATE-Senasa called for a mobilization on the Ricchieri motorway for Monday, at 10, with a cut and camp at the level of the tolls of the Ezeiza International Airport.
The deepening of the measures of force was resolved in assemblies in the different offices that Senasa has in the country, after negotiations at the Ministry of Labor failed to recognize a series of demands regarding additional, equal wages. with other state agencies. The conversations at Work had come in the midst of a national strike for 10 days, which ended on Wednesday, and which complicated the development of the different agro-industrial activities, controlled by Senasa, with force.
As El Cronista reported when the previous strike began, on Monday the 6th and during this week, the protest by Senasa workers affects phytosanitary controls at plants, on routes, at border crossings and airports. It hindered shipments for the export of cereals and oilseeds, as well as shipments of fruits, dairy and other food products.
It also prevents the transfer of cattle from the fields to the concentrator markets, and from these to the slaughter plants. The strike also prevents production processes from being certified. Last weekend, nine exporting cold-storage plants suspended their activity for ten days, licensed 7,000 workers, arguing that they could not receive animals or carry out normal activities due to the strike. It was planned to resume operations starting next Monday, but now with the new Senasa strike, plans will surely change.
From ATE-Senasa, it was rejected that their claim was used by employers as an excuse to reduce staff and to demand reduction of withholdings from the Government.
In the midst of the previous protest, which culminated last Wednesday, there was an average 20% rise in the prices of the hacienda standing in the Mercado de Liniers. And there were also reports that these increases were beginning to carry over to the counter.
With the strike launched now from the 20th until Friday the 31st, they argue in the industry, the shortage of beef will be felt more strongly in the coming days.
In a statement, ATE-Senasa defended the decision to deepen the measures of force, with the aim of achieving "a real resolution" to the claims, many of which have dragged on since 2009.
In this sense, they commented that in yesterday's hearing in ", Work, there was no agreement because" the employer State, which had promised to bring a final proposal "to the claims, did not do so.
"We find that the Ministry of Economy did not authorize the necessary item to face these payments (additional per area and risky tasks, equate with salaries of other agents of organizations such as AFIP, Customs)," the union noted.
And they directly blamed Deputy Minister Emanuel Álvarez Agis "for putting the obstacles to the negotiation, since he has been in possession of the definition for 10 days and does not give his approval."
SOURCE: EL CHRONISTA