With the agreement, the transportation company must pay the salaries owed to the workers. Meanwhile, Unott announced a general strike on Friday.
The transport company, Copsa, will meet this afternoon with the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works (MTOP) to sign the agreement that enables the loan by the Republic Bank (BROU) and that it will have to be used to pay the salary owed to its workers, a situation that triggered the conflict in transportation.
This Thursday the agreement would be signed with the MTOP and then with him BROU, as confirmed by Subrayado, which has the objective of being used to pay the salaries owed to the company’s workers.
The money as an advance escrow For the suburban transport sector it will be for the payment of older amounts such as licenses, vacation and complementary salaries, which generated the conflict on the part of the Copsa Workers Association (ATC).
General strike on Friday
A general strike 24 hours throughout the transport will take place this Friday, after the National Union of Workers and Transport Workers (Unott) approves the measure of force, within the framework of the conflict in Copsa.
“We consider it inadmissible that the payment of the salary”, They indicated from Unott through a statement, in the midst of the company’s non-payment, that it declared itself insolvent and is waiting for a loan from BROU.
The delegate of the Copsa union, Andrés Martínez, anticipated in dialogue Underlined that the force measure that they have carried out since Monday will continue this Thursday, reaching 96 hours of paralysis, to which will be added the general strike on Friday.
“What we have on the table today is an alleged payment on Friday. We have been hearing about the alleged payment for a long time,” Martínez said about the development of the negotiations. In justifying the strike call anyway, he warned: “Since we have no reliable guarantees that this will happen, the Unott proposes to wear this 24 hour strike for Friday.”
Asked about a possible deactivation of the force measure, the union member clarified that “there would have to be a certain definition that the payment will be for all workers”, for one debt which is estimated at around $800,000.
Source: Ambito
