Half year has passed since the Petroleum Multinational of the Dock Sud refinery, conducted discriminatory dismissals.
From that moment, the workers begin an intense campaign denouncing that they are dismissals in a company that expands their businesses both in Vaca Muerta, as in the pollutant platform of Mar del Plata, and investing in new plants in the Dock Sud refinery, and therefore the matrix of them is not economic but political.
These layoffs constitute an attack on workers who have headed for demanding and organizing for improvements in safety and hygiene conditions, salary, for union democracy, for supporting the defense of women’s rights, and for denouncing the environmental damage that the company generates in the surrounding population.
This activity was thus verified by justice: “There are indications about the actor’s environmental activity, and an activity aimed at care of the work environment.”
Gustavo Michel always sought better working conditions for his colleagues, militating to improve the lives of oil workers, and their families.
Being a brigadista had to attend burned companions, almost, in full and risking other brigades to prevent fires from taking lives.
As with the lives of all workers, behind each job there are families. He is the father of three children, one of his children has a disability that requires much more attention and treatments, with two daughters of school age.
This ruling is an important step, also, from the legal because it prevails the defense of labor rights and the prohibition of discrimination, before the regressive labor reform that introduced the Base Law and article 245 bis of the Labor Contract Law.
It is also the first time that a judge uses the activity for the preservation of the environment as an argument to re -install. A good antecedent and support for all environmental activists.
We believe that this precautionary ruling is registered as a result of a great fight and the accompaniment of the national campaign against discriminatory dismissals, which we carry out Shell – Raizen workers along with the fired from Pilkington, Volkswagen and Pyg, and together with the lawyers of the Center for Professionals for Human Rights, organism headed by Myriam Bregman, who are the judicial process, which are the judicial process. making available to the struggles their role as professionals.
This national campaign has received the support of important unions such as the CTA-A, CTA-T, ATE, Oilos, UOM Villa Constitución, Cicop, Sutna, Subway, and important human rights figures such as the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, Carmen Arias and Elia Espen have also expressed their solidarity with it. So also national deputies such as Victoria Toloza Paz, Hugo Yasky, Sergio Palazzo, Esteban Paulón, Nicolás del Caño, Christián Castillo, Alejandro Vilca, and many more.
We need to expect what response the multinational company will have before this precautionary ruling. If you will decide to respect the Argentine justice or on the contrary it will be located in the complete illegality.
*Justice failure for discriminatory dismissal in Shell Raizen*
After six months of strong claims by Shell workers, dismissed in a discriminatory way at the beginning of the year. The Court No. 40 ordered the precautionary reinstallation of Gustavo Michell to his … pic.twitter.com/LYYiLZiK4x
– Gustavo Michel (@michel_gus) July 14, 2025
Meanwhile, Shell’s workers, who interpret this precautionary as an important step forward, remain firm in the fight for the reinstatement of all dismissed, in coordination and solidarity with the workers of Secco and Georgalos, who also face layoffs before large companies. The force against dismissals in general, but in particular anti -indic and discriminatory practices in large multinational companies gain strength and must be the protagonist of the fight against the adjustment of the Milei government.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
