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Unusual: a plant in Pampero closes 44 days after opening due to union problems

2021-08-03T17:09:53.097Z


It had been reopened in La Rioja with great fanfare and cymbals. Now they are looking for a new investor.


08/03/2021 14:03

  • Clarín.com

  • Economy

Updated 08/03/2021 14:04

The La Rioja government's Facebook post is dated June 17.

There, a video highlights the reopening of the Pampero de Sanagasta plant and the incorporation of 30 workers.

However,

44 days after its start-up,

last Friday the factory closed again, canceling the agreement that the Teknor-Pampero company had with the province and the Municipality, which had given the facilities on loan for 40 years, according to reports the Nueva Rioja newspaper.

The company argued that "the workers made it unemployed" and the former workers said they "suffered labor abuse." 

Faced with the decision, the mayor of Sanagasta, Federico Sbíroli, promised to try to find another investor.

Teknor-Pampero

decided to terminate on Friday, July 30, the contract

with the members of the Cooperativa "Unidos por La Lucha" that had been signed on June 16, after the administration of Sbíroli and the provincial government.

The company had hired 27 workers "outside of the purely cooperative," says the newspaper.

The relationship with the staff was strained when the company decided to disengage one of the workers, which caused his colleagues to initiate a total stoppage of activities, which triggered the closure of Pampero.

Now, the Ministry of Industry of the province will have to endorse the loan in the name of the Municipality so that the machines return to the cooperative again.

"

The employees spoke of labor abuse

, they said that the manager treated them like a military man. There was a person who was fired and the workers made a strike. There were complaints about the issue of salaries, fortnights and that they had promised a percentage and it was not fulfilled ", said

Luis Flores, secretary of government of the commune

in relation to the demands of the workers.

Regarding Pampero's arguments to withdraw, the official pointed out that "

what bothered the company is that they were put on strike

. As a government, with the mayor in charge and the Minister of Industry Federico Bazán, we are taking steps to see what The company might be interested.

There is a new business proposal

for the cooperative's employees but we will have to wait and see what happens. "

NE

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Source: clarin

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