The workers of the Single Union of Argentine Tire Workers (Sutna) will begin this Thursday at 1:00 p.m. a stoppage of activities to claim the delay in the wages of the sector, at the same time that they ask for the reopening of parity. The measure will be extended until Friday, when the workers who cover the shift tomorrow return to the factories, according to union sources.
under the slogan “We defend the salary among all of us and with all our might”the union organization will mobilize this Thursday from the plants of the tire companies to the headquarters of the Ministry of Labor of the Nationlocated in Callao 114 in the center of the CABA.
At the doors of the headquarters of the Labor portfolio, the workers of the sutna They will gather from 3:00 p.m., where they will hold a day of protest against wages.
Wages: strike of tire workers
The measure of force with cessation of activities will be reflected in the plants of the companies Fate, Bridgestone and Pirelli. Sutna’s actions are in response to the proposal of the business sector, which also expressed a position on “a complex economic situation” where “there is a situation of uncertainty regarding certain macroeconomic variables that force companies in the activity to face the present negotiation as carefully as possible“, they warned.
Sutna’s decision comes after a hearing held last Monday in which the parties in dispute failed to reach an agreement. “We had demanded a salary increase that would allow us to be above inflation to recover some purchasing power and the response from the factories was well below the inflationary projection, generating a proposal for a salary reduction,” said the general secretary of the Sutna, Alejandro Crespothrough a statement.
The union leader also assured that the employer’s position “provoked the reaction of the entire union”, which today will carry out this forceful measure.
Tire parity: what the companies offered
Pirelli and Bridgestone proposed a series of increases in tranches with an initial increase of 18 percent for this month of July. They also offered:
- 15 percent remunerative and non-cumulative increase on current salaries as of 07/01/2023 from 10/01/2023.
- 17 percent remunerative and non-cumulative increase on current salaries as of 07/01/2023 from 12/01/2023.
- 17 percent remunerative and non-cumulative increase on current salaries as of 07/01/2023 from 02/01/2024.
- A review clause in March 2024 to analyze the development of the joint agreement based on the main economic variables in the context of the activity.
FateInstead, he said he did not adhere to that potential regime and, on the contrary, indicated his intention to establish a parity to be defined for a period of no more than three months.
Source: Ambito
