For more than 3 months the fleet of Tangoner ships is paralyzed by decision of the business chambers that want to impose a decrease in the 30%salary, in addition to more flexible, even more, the collective work agreement. Thousands of maritime workers and their families are resisting this attack and say “not down.”
Despite the polar wave, which feels more crudely in Patagonia, being Pto. Madryn one of the cities where temperatures were lower throughout the country, this July 1 hundreds of sailors with their families again autoconvocar to make their fight to make the streets of the city.
The appointment of the march that had spread on social networks, in WhatsApp groups and spread from some media was at the door of its union, the Somu, and starting at 6:30 p.m. Thus, workers and workers from the sea were arriving with their families. The mobilization started after 19 with dozens of torches on with posters and banners that the families carried despite the cold that froze their hands.
Recall that Tangoneros ships carry out prawns fishing (exclusively), developing the entire process on the high seas, that is, that the prawn is already processed, in box and frozen. These workers and workers work in the national season that starts in March and extends depends the maximum of 6 months, although in recent years the time of the harvest has been reduced.
Among the workers who carry out this work, one of the most dangerous in the world according to the ILO, are the troops that when there is no season they charge an insurance of $ 500,000 pesos, well below the $ 630,000 that INDEC determines as the indigence floor and there are the “relay”, workers who when the season does not develop do not perceive even the insurance that the effective ones charge.
In addition, because as they have to recognize even the most official media in the province, the fight has a person in charge, the entrepreneurs who want to maximize their profits, not denying a salary increase, but because they want to lower the salaries to the workers of the sea.
Rich employers and poor and without right, the motto of business chambers and governments
Against this attack by entrepreneurs who, with the endorsement of governments, want to impose labor flexibility in the events, lowering the salary 30% and attacking the rights conquered in the Labor Agreement, a hard resistance has been developed for more than three months, which has given new forms of organization between the workers and their families.
Thus, autoconvocated workers sectors have installed pickets at the door of some fishing plants, such as Conarpesa, on Provincial Route 1 and at the northern departure of the city on the National Route 3. Their families have also been organized, so dozens of women have stood up a commission that meets in a WhatsApp group, have been driving of the marches and have managed to tear the municipality of Pto. For workers’ families.
Yesterday in the mobilization it was shown again that the fight has strength, that those workers and workers who work in terrible conditions, away from their families for 15 days embarked, with storms in the middle of the sea that put their lives at risk, are not going to loosen, that they want to defend their rights and their salary.
They are or we, or win the businessmen and governments who want And the teachers and health workers who have frozen salaries for months and are of the worst payments of the country, or the secondary ones that claim silver for school infrastructure, scholarships for all and dining rooms in all schools.
In the unity of these claims is the key so that the strength and will to fight the sea workers defeat the employer attack and impose their claims. In the fight for the coordination and that arise spaces that drive the unity of the workers is the force to impose on the union centrals a national strike of 36 hours and a struggle plan until defeating the entire attack of Milei, Torres and the employers.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
