Jujuy: Aceros Zapla would go to a Salta company and worries the continuity of the 230 employees

Jujuy: Aceros Zapla would go to a Salta company and worries the continuity of the 230 employees

February 3, 2025 – 19:38

The businessman Taselli would have detached himself from the historic plant, while the UOM Jujeña denounces dismissals and asks that the Ministry of Labor and the National Guild driving in the conflict intervene.

The company Aceros Zapla, former high ovensMunicipality where most employees are. The sector’s union, the UOM, denounced layoffs in January, that the firm would be in the process of selling, so it requested the intervention of the provincial Ministry of Labor and that the National General Secretariat of the Union was interferenced in the conflict to guarantee the Work sources.

According to PUO KNOWLEDGE SCOPE, In January there was a dozen dismissed, in the midst of the claim for the firm to catch up with salaries and pay differences of backward salary increases. Each employee receives an average of $ 500,000. “It is already difficult to live with that amount and if they take it, much more,” said a worker from the plant to this medium. He said that since November the firm, owned by the businessman Sergio Taselli, presented at the provincial Labor Ministry a preventive crisis procedure, there were hearings between the parties but the substantive issue was not resolved, which is to know what the future of the plant will be .

The climate of uncertainty was deepened when the UOM, with the signatures of the Secretary General Alfredo Suárez and the attachment, Carlos Clementeraised an order to the National Secretariat of the Union, shared to this medium, to intervene in the conflict and indicated: “The week of January 18, the company dismissed several workers without justification and employees have not received months without receiving their Complete wages, breaking the Collective Labor Agreement (CCT) 260/75 “. On the other hand, the UOM Jujeña section indicated that Tasselli would have already informed the provincial authorities of his senation from the firm, a version that was not officialized but they maintain that the entrepreneurs toured the plant a few days ago Jorge Aníbal Yobi and Diego Matías Yobiowners of the Metalnor SRL firm, of Salteño capitals, which develops their activity in the field of purchase and sale of scrap metals in large volumes.

The situation of Aceros Zaple is part of an unfavorable context for the sector. Two weeks ago, the Argentine Steel Chamber (CAA) reported a production of 256,300 tons of raw steel in December 2024, 24.3% less than the previous month and 23.1% below the December value of 2023 . In addition, the manufacture of hot laminates – a river that supports the Jujeña plant – had a drop of 31.4% intermensual and 13.1% year -on -year.

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On the other hand, The Department of Economic Studies of the Association of Metallurgical Industrialists of the Argentine Republic (Adimra) reported that metallurgical activity fell 12.1% in the last year. “All items closed 2024 with falls in production with respect to 2023. Agricultural machinery (-6.4%) and bodies and trailers (-7.6%) are the two that fallen children recorded, followed by the manufacturers of Autopartes (-11.7%) and electrical equipment and devices (-11.8%) although these last two are close to the general average, “said the report. And the foundry sector (-17.7%) and other metal products (-14%) that were the most affected during the year, followed by the capital goods (-13.0%) and Medical equipment (12.8%).

Other times

Aceros Zapla knew how to be the state high Hornos Zaplathe country’s first steel center, which had a strategic role in the Argentine industry. His first casting was in October 1945 and it was the heart of the city of Palpalá, attached to San Salvador de Jujuy, and at its peak involved labor for 5,000 workers.

In the 90s it was privatized during the government of former president Carlos Menem, which produced a wave of layoffs that brought the plant less than a third. Since 2000 its owner is Taselli. Since then, the plant suffered the crises of the country’s economic cycles, depending on the rhythm of the economic activity of each presidential management.

Source: Ambito

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