The board will not pay compensation to non-essential staff, in response to the union’s stance not to work overtime.
He labor union of the National Administration of Fuel, Alcohol and Portland (Ancap) decided not to hold yesterday’s representative assembly, a moment that from the board of directors of the state oil company Uruguay considered key to define the future of the maintenance shutdown at the refinery The Tile; and whose postponement they responded with the suspension of the passage to the maintenance area of 120 workers, together with the corresponding compensatory.
A new stage of union conflict what happens in ancap for almost four months it has been looming after the decision made by the oil company’s board of directors, after the Ancap Federation (Fancap) resolved to postpone the key assembly for the state company: there it was expected to define whether the workers would finally do overtime and the tasks of refinery maintenance could be carried out closer to the time originally established —instead of extending for more than three months, with the economic impact consequent.
However the labor union decided to move on to the next thursday 14 September to hold the assembly and, with it, wait for the opening of bids for the private partnership in portland business —The reason for the union conflict. Meanwhile, the position of working by regulation would be maintained, at least, until next week.
Ancap’s response
the posture of fancap This implies that maintenance activities can be carried out according to the plan drawn up by the business and technical authorities of the operations in La Teja, and every day that the refinery is out of work —it went into shutdown on Monday of this week— they are $800,000 that the state oil company loses.
Because of this, and within the framework of the conflict that has been going on for months, the board of ancap resolved to suspend the passage to the maintenance area of about 120 refining operators who would work in the unit stoppage, as they had requested.
In addition, these officials will begin to work in fixed shift —from 7 to 15 according to the general work regime for the personnel assigned to the strike of units—, therefore it is also will stop applying the compensations associated with the rotating integral tourism of all non-essential refining personnel. This means that of 280 workers, some 200 —who do not carry out essential tasks for the supply of fuel to the population— they will lose a large percentage of their wages; in some cases, up to half.
“These provisions set up another affectation of workers’ rights which can only be understood as reprisal to the definitions that we have taken as a collective in the fight against the largest privatization within a state entity in the last 30 years,” he said. fancap in a statement, while going through his own internal conflicts, which could be aggravated by the decision of the authorities and the economic need of the workers.
Source: Ambito
