Alcohols from Uruguay (ALUR), collateral company of ancap decided to halt operations at the plant beautiful union( Artigas) due to the partial stoppages of one hour per shift without union guards carried out by the Union of Workers of the Sugar Cane (SOCA).
This Thursday, ALUR considered it prudent to paralyze the sugar cane harvest sugar due to “security reasons and integrity of the facilities”, according to an official statement released by ancap.
The company alleges that the union measures were adopted “surprisingly” and “without reasonable relation to the issues under consideration” nor to the advances in collective bargaining. In turn, it is added that an agreement had already been reached with the workers for the resolution of the conflict.
“The stoppage of the industrial complex made it necessary to stop the harvesting tasks that were being carried out at a great pace and with once again excellent yields,” they lamented from the autonomous entity.
The state company decided to go further and reported that the measure adopted by SOCA affects cane producers, transporters and, mainly, “cane cutters who will lose their income, which is piecework, irretrievably.” .
Ancap does not stop adding headaches
The measures of force of the cane growers in ALUR, are added to an escalation of conflicts that the Ancap Group in relation to their unions, which have spoken out against the privatization of the portal business and the aerofuels plant in Willow Lagoon (maldonado).
In turn, in the last hours, the Ancap Federation (fancap) — trade union ancap—, denounced the company’s board of directors for “union persecution” before the International Labor Organization (ILO), since they accuse that “they make them sign” a record about their adherence to trade union measures.
Source: Ambito
