Since Saturday night, the Ancap Federation (fancap) is occupying tugboats of ancap in it port of Punta del Este. The measure of the union of officials of the state company will be maintained until the at least 24 hoursand it is expected that it can be extended until 07:00 tomorrow, when the activity would resume.
This protest against the privatization of the Portland business, in the national cement and lime industry, has already generated losses of $100,000as reported by authorities of the autonomous entity.
The two occupied tugboats, the seventh and the eighth, are moored to breakwater 1 of the Punta Este port, and are very important in regards to crude oil unloading maneuvers at the oil buoy of Jose Ignacio.
About 20 Ancap officials would be occupying the tugboats “in defense of the cement industryIn turn, today, other members of Fancap carried out an informative “flyer” at the Tristán Narvaja fair about the current situation in Portland.
On May 18, Ancap’s board of directors approved, without a majority vote of the broad fronta tender to find a partner who can carry out partially, or totally, the cement and lime business, in an attempt to improve the economic balances of the entity.
Fancap seeks to know what the future of Portland workers will be
On May 30, Fancap delivered a letter to the Executive Tower demanding the situation of their jobs. The President of the Federation, Natalia Belloassured that “there are no guarantees in the portland bidding document“in the future, where in addition”international conventions of the International Labor Organization are violated (ILO) putting a price on each worker as if he were another commodity“.
Belo clarified that with the coordinator of Ancap unions they approached the Executive Tower to “demand for the wealth in the hands of the State”, so that “the workers are not fooled”. seeking to clarify what will be the future of the autonomous entity and its related collateral companies.
For the president of Fancap, the only thing that emerges from the Portland tender document is that “the association will determine the number of workers to relocate.” “The wide margin towards private capital in the association, and the minimum in the State, does not guarantee jobs“, he remarked.
Source: Ambito
