The Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining maintains that handing over the plant to private companies saved Ancap 27 million dollars, but for the union there were “other alternatives.”
The union of workers of the National Administration of Fuels, Alcohol and Portland (Ancap) He warned that “if there is no negotiation, there will be surprise measures” within the framework of the plan to fight against the transfer of the land to private individuals. aerofuel plant of Carrasco. For the Minister of Industry, Energy and Mining (MIEM), Elisa Faciothe measures “draw attention”.
The Ancap Federation (Fancap) has just carried out a 72-hour strike in protest against the decision of the Board of Directors of the state oil company to hand over to private actors the Carrasco aerofuel plant, which has “a fundamental role for the sovereignty of air connectivity of the country” and that the Uruguayan people have invested millions of dollars in said infrastructure. It also decided to cut off the supply and sale of fuels to the Carrasco Airport.
For its part, Natalia Belo, President of Fancap, told Informativo Uruguay that, if a space is not opened negotiation, There will be other measures: “strikes, occupations and disruption to the logistics chain, in a surprising manner,” he warned.
The leader said that the five workers who worked at the Carrasco aerofuels plant were notified on Friday of their transfer to other areas of the company as of last Monday. “There is a lack of knowledge of collective bargaining,” she accused, although the Board of Directors of Ancap They maintain that it is not appropriate to debate in collective bargaining areas as there is no change of tasks in the transfer.
The Ministry’s concern
Meanwhile, the head of MIEM, Elisa Facio, He pointed out that “there is concern” in the government and that “the measures are striking because we are talking about a decision that the Board of Directors made, which what it does is remove Ancap of a controversy that he had, which threatened to have to pay 27 million dollars for a company that had been formed in 2012.”
For Belo and Fancap, however, the state oil company had “other alternatives” besides handing over the plant to private companies, which did not necessarily involve abandoning it. Ancap. “That is why we want to open a dialogue on this issue,” he insisted.
In this regard, the union points out that when it is withdrawn Petrobras of the partnership with the Uruguayan public company in the aerofuels segment, the latter “could have kept the shares at zero cost”. Instead, “the board of directors of Ancap decides to exit the business shortly after, in 2021,” he noted.
“We do not want to co-manage the company, but the union is an important actor that must be informed about decisions that affect workers and the sovereignty of Ancap”, Belo stressed.
He Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTSS) will call the parties to a negotiation.
Source: Ambito
