The board issued a statement in which it maintains that “the conditions are not met” to negotiate. According to Paganini, the situation is “at a standstill.”
The minister of Industry, Energy and Mining (MIEM), Omar Paganini, argued that the negotiation between the National Administration of Fuel, Alcohol and Portland (Ancap) and the union of officials of the state oil company Uruguay It is “in a rut,” although the government is willing to resume dialogue. The company’s board of directors maintain that talks will not be resumed while union measures are maintained.
“Hopefully we can resume dialogue and resume work at the refinery peacefully and productively,” Paganini said in an interview with Channel 10. “We have to sit down to work, to negotiate, not with the refinery stopped and work stalled, which is what is happening now,” added the minister, in reference to the current conflict situation, added to the technical maintenance stoppage at the refinery. The Tile —which, for the moment, will extend three times as long as originally planned due to the measures of the Ancap Federation (Fancap).
In that sense, he stated that the government has the will to negotiate, but that the union demands that all sanctions imposed on workers be lifted as a precondition to resuming negotiations. “So we are actually in a crash. I hope this changes soon,” Paganini added.
New confrontations between the Ancap board and the union
Last week, after the representative assembly of Fancap, the union decided to extend – at least partially – the white flag in what is the conflict over the Portland business that has been going on for several months; and proposed to sit down again negotiation table with the precondition of lifting all measures from both parties: both those of force carried out by the union and the sanctions imposed by the board.
As a reply, Ancap issued a statement after a meeting with the National Labor Directorate (Dinatra), in which they point out that, first of all, the state company “did not receive communication” through the relevant channels about “provisions resolved at the general assembly” of Fancap; and that, on the other hand, “it is not acceptable” to accept the proposal to “suspend all the measures implemented by both parties for the duration of the negotiation period”, while the union “omits to describe what measures of Ancap it means”.
“The Administration has taken legitimate and founded resolutionsbased on criteria of good administration that are not appropriate to discuss in areas of negotiation with Fancap,” the statement says, adding that the public company understands that “the conditions are not in place to reopen the tripartite area abandoned by Fancap as long as they remain in place. atypical union measuressurprise stoppages, cutting of overtime, impossibility of organizing guards on a shift basis and any other distortion that affects the right to work.
“Without prejudice to the foregoing, in the event that Fancap lifts the union measures in force, Ancap undertakes to immediately generate a sphere of dialogue in the orbit of Dinatra with the participation of unions of workers involved in the maintenance stoppage of the refinery and representatives of the contracting companies through the Chamber of Construction of Uruguayin order to agree on the conditions required for the execution of the work schedule prepared by the technicians of Ancap and ensure that labor relations will not have an impact on the times of said execution,” adds the text from the state oil company.
Likewise, in the event that agreements are reached for work on the refinery’s maintenance stoppage, the company says that it is committed to arranging the “immediate” integration of personnel from the refinery. Refining Management to the maintenance teams and the “reimplementation of compensation for rotating integral shifts since then.”
Source: Ambito
