The objective is to define an agenda of topics for the next 30 days. The union and the company will talk this Friday.
After the suspension of the measures of force, the union of Conaprole accepted one “short-term” trading to establish the working conditions in the next 30 days, something that will be finalized this Friday during a meeting between union representatives and company managers.
After a meeting at the Ministry of Labor and Social Security of Uruguay between officials and members of the Association of Workers and Employees of Conaprole (AOEC), the Federation of Workers of the Dairy Industry and the Pit-Cnt, the union gave the go-ahead to develop “an in-depth dialogue” over the next month.
He President of the Pit-Cnt, Marcelo Abdala, indicated in a press conference after the meeting that the Ministry that leads Paul Mieres He proposed “a short-term negotiation.” The objective is to establish the working conditions for the next 30 days and thus “develop an in-depth dialogue”, focusing on the final way of working with the new technology that Conaprole incorporated.
At that point, he clarified that “there are two steps” and explained that this Friday “the conditions to open that negotiation will probably be discussed.” In case there is an agreement, they will discuss details such as “the number of workers needed, number of shifts, job description and duration of the day,” he said. abdala.
In the same vein, the Director of Labor, Federico Daverede, who specified that the substantive issues will not be discussed at the meeting on Friday. “We are going to try to generate the conditions to put together a work agenda in the next 30 days and there we will have a deep conversation,” she specified.
Negotiations open in Conaprole after several days of conflict
It is worth remembering that the AOEC had suspended this Wednesday the measures of force that included the work to regulation. As a negotiation gesture, he put on hold “the 3 hours of unemployment per week, per shift and per worker, as actions that could affect exports, according to what was pointed out from his Board of Directors.
Previously, the president of Conaprole, Gabriel Fernández Secco, He had described the conflict as “really capricious and unnecessary” in statements to the press. In this regard, he indicated that the company lost 1.5 million liters of long-life milk and had to pay fines to China for not making exports in a timely manner.
The origin of the union conflict goes back to the investment of Conaprole at the Villa Rodríguez plant, where it incorporated new packaging machines with a capacity of 15,000 liters per hour of long-life milk. Technology led the company to propose a rescheduling of shifts and ways of working, something the union opposed.
Source: Ambito
