This week will be key to The tire industry In Argentina, which is going through a turbulent present. While some definition is expected on Bridgestone’s request to reopen the crisis procedure, in Pirelli and Fate The ongoing negotiations with the union for wages and working conditions were tensed.
The agenda of discussions indicates that this week there will be At least three meetings Among the companies and leaders of the Single Union of Pneumatic Workers of Argentina (Sutna).
The first of these meetings was held this morning before the Morón Regional Delegation of the Ministry of Labor of the Province of Buenos Aires, where the parties They ratified their positions before a complaint made by Sutna against Pirelli last week for cases “Undercover dismissals.”
The guild accused the company in a statement to be applying a plan of “harassment” to the workers of the plant located in Merlo to accept a voluntary retirement offer.
“Pirelli persists in summoning workers individually, without allowing the presence of union representation, for a hostile environment towards the worker and denying fundamental rights, Host him and threaten him to convince him to accept an alleged negotiated separationbut that is actually a resignation obtained through the exercise of violence and the harassment of the employer about the worker, ”denounced the Sutna.
“Many have been the workers who, rejecting the pressures and threats, They received telegrams notifying them their layoffs in the terms of article 245 LCT and alleging in communication a fall in production volumes and the need to readjust and restructure different sectors of the plant, a fact that then uses to give greater support to the pressure it exerts on new partners to the that they are subjected to the violent procedure, ”he added.
“There is no doubt that all this generates an unquestionable collective conflict that indisputably affects the set of workers and their families, generating a manifest uncertainty at a time when a deep economic and social crisis hits the population and ourselves aggravates the Sequelae of these acts of harassment and violence about the worker, which has as one of his resulting these undercover dismissals, ”he said.
The salary discussion broke the business front
Pirelli also has another front with the guild for The joint discussion. The multinational Italian origin now in the hands of Chinese capitals, participates together with Fate and Bridgestone of this collective bargaining, which has been adding chapters due to the lack of agreement with the union and also among the same companies.
This Friday 14 will meet the parties again to try to agree on a salary increase. At the previous audience Pirelli proposed to grant a 1% cumulative and remunerative increase on the basic and additional values in force as of 12/31/2024. And the same percentage as of January 1, 2025.
“This proposal, which is added to the increases already agreed until 12/31/2024, offers a scheme of salary increases that covers the entire parity period and represents An extreme effort in the frame that crosses the activity of the tire”, Said the company.
However, both the National Fate and the Japanese multinational Bridgestone stated that They could not accompany that salary offer and detailed the reasons for that position that will be debated again next Friday since the labor portfolio asked companies to unify a proposal.
“Tire activity is going through A complex situationcombining a strong demand contraction, losses in the export market, sustained increase in inventories and operating costs, all within a framework of low competitiveness. Such scenario has deepened in recent months, reaching a greater level of criticality, producing a direct affectation on the levels of employability of plants and the urgent need to reorganize their productive activities According to current market conditions, ”Bridgestone and Fate argued, as recorded in the Audience Act.
The Sutna rejects that business justification and argues: “The repeated allusion to the existence of crisis as an argument to unfair the parity negotiation unfair It is collided with the incontrastable fact that, at no time, in no administrative action, companies have demonstrated the existence of the alleged crisisnot providing any evidence. ”
Expectation for the work opinion on Bridgestone’s crisis
At this point, the discussion Transites the same lanes that are raised in front of Bridgestone’s request to reopen the crisis preventive procedure. The company argues that it is in the midst of a crisis due to the fall in local demand.
However, the guild denies that this situation is real and offers as proof that Bridgestone International presented A global action plan to cut production and jobs in several countries, including Argentina and Brazil.
The final decision is in the hands of the Ministry of Labor of the Nation, which must rule whether it accepts or rejects the request for reopening of the PPP (applied by the company in October 2024 to adjust production and employment levels).
The unit of crisis in charge of following the case has already received all the documentation of the parties and is expected to announce its decision in the next few days. If the company’s request is approved, another 290 layoffs could be realized, As the Sutna alerted timely.
In this context, the labor agenda of the tire companies includes another relevant date: this Thursday, February 13 there will be a meeting in the Tigre delegation of the Ministry of Labor of the Province of Buenos Aires to discuss alleged violations of the LCT and the collective agreement On the part of the company FATE as the union that leads Alejandro Crespo denounced.
Source: Ambito
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