Distributors refused to distribute fresh milk due to lack of stock, and last night they only received this product in hospitals and prisons.
Fresh milk is lacking in Uruguay due to the conflict between the Association of Workers and Employees of Conaprole (AOEC) with the company from the incorporation of a new packaging machinery in the plant of Villa Rodriguez. Yesterday, the Cooperative denounced a blockade of 130,000 liters by the workers.
In Uruguay, a producing country, there is no milk in the shelves. Although the shortage was not contemplated in the first instance -they were other dairy products informed by the union that could have shortages due to the conflict-, the distributors indicated that, at night, there was no packaged stock to distribute.
From AOEC, they pointed out that it was a decision outside of them. “This morning no fresh milk came out Diprolac camera decisionof the employers of the distributors, who understood that they were not going to load as long as there was not enough stock. They were not going to be queuing or waiting to take out, sell the milk, so they decided not to come today and they are going out tonight,” he said. Luis Goichea to Underline.
This led to the fact that, last night, only milk was distributed to hospitals and jailsdue to the force measures that are currently being carried out, which consist of work to regulations and a two-hour stoppage per shift since Tuesday.
For their part, from Conaprole they continue to insist that “conflict is absurd and irrational” because “there are no salary losses or any right affected”, as expressed by its vice president, Alexander Perez.
Conflict and 130,000 liters of whole milk blocked
Yesterday afternoon, Conaprole denounced through a statement that the workers blocked the supply of 130,000 liters of whole UHT to the market, ready to be placed on shelves, due to a “grinding halt from the Villa Rodríguez plant.
According to the company, the forceful measure was a response from the workers after the business request to load the milk to supply the market, “at a time when a product shortage is recordedgenerated by the conflict that the union is carrying out for the installation of a new packaging machine”.
As Conaprole stated in the statement, the continuity of the measures could compromise the status of the raw material sent by the producers, which is why it seeks dialogue with the workers to review “the unfounded measures adopted.”
Source: Ambito
