Lucia Salinas
02/23/2020 - 20:55
- Clarín.com
- Politics
The Rio Turbio coal mine, investigated in different judicial files for corruption, became a focus of conflict between the previous intervention and the current one assumed by Aníbal Fernández. The disinfection of 417 people to Carboniferous Deposits, produced a crossing of accusations that will result in a criminal complaint. A company without operating since August, with trade union conflicts, a budget that will only arrive in April with a strong application to salaries, the radiography of the company that unleashed the conflict over the increase in the personnel plant.
The Carboniferous Basin (formed by the Río Turbio and November 28 localities), lives from mining: coal extraction has been for decades the main activity of these Santa Cruz towns. The YCRT company, operated since 2002, is subsidized by the State and concentrates the highest percentage of jobs in the area. During the management of Cambiemos, about 300 people were laid off.
The current intervention by Aníbal Fernández, revoked the appointment of 417 workers who had been incorporated into YCRT before the change of government. The funds allocated to the coal mine in the Budget Law of the government of Mauricio Macri, allocated $ 2.6 billion. Its highest percentage applies to salary coverage. This game reaches until April, company sources told Clarín.
According to reports from Cambiemos, “the personnel plant between 2011-2015 doubled - at least - or was oversized, reaching a little over 3,000 agents but not for production reasons, but rather for electoral purposes. It served Atanasio Pérez Osuna (former YCRT auditor), to win the intention but not YCRT or the inhabitants or workers of the Carboniferous Basin. "Under those arguments in January 2018, 215 workers were dismissed.
The objective of the YCRT intervention under the management of Omar Zeidán (Change) was to reduce the cost of the company. The Budget then granted $ 3,435 million, almost 800 million less than in 2017, and for 2019 it was even lower. According to the authorities of the mining company, the sum of money is not enough to cover salaries and retirement.
The complaint made by the previous management, said that while the personnel plant in YCRT grew (233% during the previous government), "coal production was 85% less" and that "it is impossible to have this structure and be efficient. "
The reality did not change too much. Since August due to union conflicts, the coal mine is inactive. According to Aníbal Fernández denounced, despite this and for political purposes his predecessor - days after the management changes - “hired 417 agents in permanent plant. Without financial viability, the designation was based on the alleged "programmed investments", the "unbeatable conditions created by the Macri government" and the need for more staff. "These arguments were described as" fallacies "since" the activities of the complex they were virtually paralyzed by measures of force of the personnel and by the state of crisis of the company. ”Analyzing that the appointments“ were political and many were concretized in the Deliberative Council, ”Fernández explained to Clarín, we proceeded to“ the revocation of the resolution (which was not even signed by the Labor application authority) ”of 417 people.
In addition, YCRT attorneys were instructed to proceed with the corresponding criminal complaint against the outgoing auditor for frank deviation of power and for crimes of public action to the detriment of YCRT.
The answer was immediate. “The contracts that are intended today to be annulled, were made and methodologically shaped as has been customary in YCRT. Our management did not deviate from the procedure that in previous times, the same officialism of today, applied with similar results, ”said Zeidán.
On the other hand, the former inspector indicated that his administration respected “the more than 300 contracted that were not from the Permanent Plant of the FPV management in 2015, none was disinfected, passing them to permanent plant based on the refunctionalization that we carried out of the Company that allowed us to start producing coal continuously and safely. We hope that we proceed in the same way now, "he said.
Cambie denounced a $ 26,000 million embezzlement that should be directed to the modernization and enhancement of YCRT when Julio De Vido was Minister of Planning. They claim to have received a company of poor, unproductive conditions and that complaint led by fraudulent administration to the former minister to prison, who is now serving at his home.