Conaprole milk producers are demanding an improvement in the price of their product and called for an open assembly in Florida.
He Uruguayan dairy sector is going through a conflictive week with its workers and producers since, in the first case, three of the plants Conaprole (Montevideo, Florida and Rodríguez) decided to work regulation, while the latter called an open assembly to demand a better payment in the price of milk.
This Monday, the workers at the three plants of Conaprole Assemblies were held where it was announced that, as of this Tuesday, the plants Montevideo, Florida and Rodriguez will begin to work according to regulations. Meanwhile, both measures were decided last week and tomorrow they will be evaluated at a meeting of the union’s board of directors to determine if they are extended to the entire union.
According to the letter from the Association of Workers and Employees of Conaprole (AOEC) presented to the management of Human capital of Conaprole, The reasons for the union measures correspond to the demand for better management of seasonal hiring and internal calls, as well as with the realizations and aspects linked to the implementation of the tasks.
These measures occur in a context where the Internal market was going through a peak, after a challenging year for the dairy sector where it had to go through the decline in exports due to the decrease in Chinese demand and due to political decisions by Brazil that tried to take care of the internal market.
One more challenge
In addition to the decision of the workers, Conaprole faces the demand of the dairy farmers who demand an improvement in the price of their product. To that end, Florida producers announced the development of an open meeting that will take place today.
“What the producers came to ask us is what can be done with the price of milk,” said the president of the Florida Milk Producers Society, Horacio RodriguezAccording to the representative, the producers are concerned about the situation that the dairy is going through.
In that sense, Rodríguez assured that the measure is supported by all the dairy unions. Meanwhile, the producer assured that industries are seeing an improvement in the prices of their sales abroad, so a signal is expected in the future. “The concern of some producers “It’s just that they had felt it was mentioned that there was not going to be an increase in January and February,” he commented and added that the association believes that the industry should “take some risk.”
Source: Ambito
