Province of Buenos Aires: a new hearing is called for layoffs at a plant that produces for Adidas

Representatives of the Union of Footwear Industry Workers of the Argentine Republic (UTICRA), from the firms DASS Argentina and Adidas Argentina, from the municipality of Coronel Suárez and from the Ministry of Production.

Also present at the hearing were the Undersecretary of Labor Relations, Andrés Reveles, and the provincial director of Collective Bargaining, Juan Pablo Lorenzo.

Layoffs at a Dass Group plant

The companies presented a request to decline the administrative instance. This request was rejected by the Ministry of Labor, after considering that the decision “compromises good business faith and social peace.”

In that sense, from the labor portfolio they highlighted that the decision, which the representatives of the business sector described as “indeclinable” and thatThis implies closing the Coronel Suarez factory and laying off the 360 ​​workers, significantly harming the entire community since it is the first employer company at the local level.

According to the estimates presented by the municipality, the closure and layoffs will directly affect 400 families and another 400 indirectly. In addition, they will have devastating effects on other commercial and productive activities in the region.

For this reason, the Buenos Aires Ministry of Labor called for a new hearing of parties that will take place next week.

Dass is a Brazilian-owned company that produces footwear for Adidas, Asics, Umbro and Fila. Now, due to the crisis in the sector, it will unify its production at its Misiones plant.

Dánica closed a historic plant in Lavallol

The layoffs are in addition to those already announced by the Dánica food company, which closed its plant in the town of Lavallol, south of the Buenos Aires suburbs.

As he told Scopethe decision, made by the Beltran Groupowner of the company since 2018, is part of the decrease in demand and economic problems of the company. The measure would leave 150 workers without jobs.

The union representatives of the Union of Workers and Employees of the Oil Industry (SOEIA) accuse the Beltrán Group of having carried out a progressive emptying of the plant. According to the union, the company had stopped supplying key inputs and spare parts, which paralyzed production. This strategy, added to the implementation of voluntary withdrawals and the transfer of merchandise to other headquarters, reinforces suspicions that the intention would be to centralize operations in its Córdoba plant.