The measure was decided to accompany the mobilization towards the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, where the second tripartite negotiation will take place.
The Ancap Union Coordinator summoned the workers of the supergas bottling plant of acodike to a partial strike for today, while a tripartite meeting is held in the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTSS)with the aim of putting an end to the conflict that has affected the sector for more than 80 days.
It has been almost two months since Acodike workers have carried out different measures of force in the face of the massive layoffs that the company carried out after the new award of the bottling plant of the National Administration of Fuel, Alcohol and Portland (Ancap) —under the new modality of lease contract—; and today, from 11.30, the second tripartite negotiation in the MTSS, as reported in a statement by the Coordinator of Unions of the sector.
At the meeting, the workers will seek a “negotiated solution with the company”, for which will present a “new proposal to find a solution” to the conflict that has been going on for more than 80 days and that came to put the supply of supergas bottles in the country at risk.
To accompany the meeting at the MTSS headquarters —located in Reedbed, in Old City- and the mobilization towards it, the Acodike workers make, in parallel, a partial stoppage.
Acodike’s explanation
After meeting the mass layoffs that started the union dispute at the supergas bottling plant, the company issued a statement justifying the decision in which “The energy market in Uruguay has been changing” and that, within this framework, the players in the sector seek to provide the best service to their users, generating investments and improvements.
“Acodike has been raising these issues for many years and working consistently so that these changes are gradual. Unfortunately, in this case reality has shown that, despite these efforts, certain roots to want to maintain jobs that do not add value to the customerthey force to carry out structural changes to maintain the survival of the company in a responsible way, making it competitive and in this way guaranteeing the source of employment to those people who occupy the necessary positions to cover the volume of current demand, it is that is to say, positions that add value in the productive chain of the sector”, they indicated officially.
Source: Ambito
