He union of oil workers announced a surprise unemployment on Tuesday, affecting port terminals in northern Rosario, complicating the logistics of a harvest that was already experiencing a slow pace of marketing due to low international prices, which are at four-year lows.
This Wednesday, already on the second day of the struggle plan, More than 10,000 trucks remained stranded at the main export ports.
The slowdown in activity is causing a cost over a million dollars a dayin addition to some 20 ships awaiting loading at the terminals.
They accuse a lack of dialogue
On the other hand, both the Chamber of the Oil Industry As the Cereal Exporters Center (CIARA-CEC) criticized and pointed to a ”absence of dialogue”by the unions that decided to launch the protest.
The union considered the legitimacy of the strike, arguing that the forceful measure “It started after three weeks of meetings without agreement”They also said that the businessmen “did nothing but delay the dialogue because they have time, we don’t.”
Companies also said that the industry has already made a “great effort” and that a 77% salary increase is accumulated, while inflation has reached 79% so far this year. In turn, they detailed two other offers, which comprise a 12% increase in August and another 5% in September: “This leads to a 94% improvement for the cumulative total up to the ninth month of 2024, clearly beating inflation”they detailed.
The business chamber indicated that There are no objective reasons to reject this proposal and to allow work to continue.
Meanwhile, since the Federation of Workers of the Oilseed Industrial Complex, Cotton and Related Ginners of the Argentine Republic (FTCIODyARA) and the Workers’ Union and Oil Workers (SOEA) San Lorenzo They rejected the business proposal.
“The employers’ associations CIARA, CIAVEC and CARBIO and the companies that comprise them made the decision to Make the oil workers pay “because of the devaluation that they have been asking the Government for,” they denounced.
Source: Ambito
