The Minister of Labor and Social Security assured that the right to stop is guaranteed, but also the right to work.
The minister of Labor and Social Security (MTSS), Paul Mieresassured that the union measures carried out by members of the Single National Union of Construction and Annexes (Sunca) in maldonado were “an abuse”since although the Constitution guarantees the right to strike, it also guarantees the right to work, and those who do not adhere to the strike should not be pressured to do so.
In the last few hours, after a video of unionized workers pressured others who are not unionized to cease their work in buildings of east point, the union resolved to publicly defend the surprise assemblies in the middle of working days that are being carried out in the peninsular city.
In the video, Sunca members could be heard yelling at other workers “Do not lend yourself to the company’s errands, we are fighting”. Mieres described these exclamations as “union patoterismo”and about the episode in general he commented that “a limit was crossed”.
In turn, the minister criticized an occupation carried out by the construction union, which “according to current regulations is not allowed.” “Insulting and bullying so that people don’t work crosses the line of union freedom that is guaranteed in this country,” he said.
Sunca maintains surprise assemblies to block the arrival of concrete
The president of Sunca in Maldonado, Gabriel Padronassured the press that the union reaches “all workplaces regardless of the work” and “In some places we arrive when there are concrete trucks and we ask our colleagues to cut the concrete”.
According to Padrón, the construction union exhorts the workers to “remain in a (surprise) assembly until the concrete (truck) leaves,” he concluded. These measures imply that if the concrete truck arrives to be dumped and there are no personnel, it is lost.
Source: Ambito
