Puerto Rosario: workers declare end of strike that left thousands of containers stranded in Argentina

Workers at the Puerto Rosario terminal (TPR) suspended the strike they had been holding for over a month and will return to their functions at the port following an agreement with the employers’ association that controls the concession of terminals I and II.

According to the president of the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA), Daniel Funes de Rioja, the strike left 1500 containers idle. More than 700 of them contained industrial cargo. “This prevents the resumption of activities in the productive chains of the automotive, pharmaceutical, and food industries,” he describes. “Over the elapsed time, the goods deteriorate, and fortunes are lost, as shipowners have to pay the stay and also because production stops.”

It was agreed that the company would not reinstate five of the 25 dismissed workers, although they would be compensated for unfair exoneration. The other twenty will return to work, and all employees will receive pay for their strike days.

The general secretary of the local branch of the nationally renowned union Supa, César Aybar, confirmed that the Ministry of Labor guaranteed the continuity of assistance wages to these five people for one year as part of the agreement that triggered the conflict.

On the other hand, the union agreed with the employers to a “salary increase of 90% until March of this year, with a revision clause.” In this context, Aybar specified that the 20 reinstated workers “were reinstated without any limitation.”

Another success announced by the Supa leader was the signing of the agreement, which states that no stevedore can be fired “due to a lack of work or infrastructure problems,” which was one of the union’s concerns: Supa itself denounced a situation of underfinancing and abandonment of contractual responsibilities by the contract owner, a partnership between Avellaneda cereal producer Vicentin and Chilean trader Ultramar.

With information from La Nación and Portal Portuario.

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