These are the largest mills of the North Argentina, distanced by 100 kilometers by National Route 34.
To the geographical proximity, the business proximity is added: in both cases, the employers seek to reduce costs through the dismissals, to continue maintaining multimillionaire profits.
In the case of Ledesma Ingeniolocated in the municipality of Libertador General San Martín, the company that is owned by the family of Carlos Pedro Blaquier (the businessman who died unpunished for crimes against humanity), these are 165 sugar workers, centrally from the farms of the countryside, which were left without employment under the argument of “cost reduction and expenses”.
An argument that, as denounced by the deputy of the PTS/Front of the Left, in a project that he presented with his benchmates, contrasts with the sugar export record of the harvest, which in the last year (2024) had profits that exceed $ 40,000 million. “This without referring to the high valuation of the concentrated juice of Citrus at the international level, which allowed the company to have a record in exports, or to the benefits of reduction of export withholdings that they received this year by the national government of Javier Milei,” says the text admitted to the lower house, authorship of Vilca.
In recent times the company Ledesma amassed fortunes in all its items, still fired 40 workers without cause and announced another 165.
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Today, together with my benchmates, we present a project to reject these arbitrary dismissals and to solidarity with … pic.twitter.com/LCvStLW7WW– Alejandro Vilca (@vilcalejandro) February 25, 2025
It is not a company shaken by the crisis, but a company that in the name of competitiveness leaves 165 families in the sugar countryside and localities where there is no other labor source of importance rather than ingenuity and municipalities.
Exposed, delegates and the recently elected Board of Directors of the Sugar Ledesma Sugar Sugar Union and Employees denounce that these layoffs are the immediate response to the request for salary readjustment that will be updated again within the frame Total basic – according to INDEC – is estimated at $ 1,033,716, and the company has been known has had a record production and export and has maintained its sales to the internal sugar, alcohol and biofuel market, ”denounces the deputy of the Left Front.
This is one of the consequences of an armed political plan so that the richest have millionaire profits over the lives of thousands of families who are running out of the country.
A simple and graphic explanation of how the voracity of gain … https://t.co/2xh82rfobx– Alejandro Vilca (@vilcalejandro) February 26, 2025
In the case of the former Ingenio El Tabacalwhich today works under the signature of Seabord Renewable Energies and Food, located on National Route 50, in the border city of Oran with the town of Hipolito Yrigoyen, in the province of Salta, these are 24 new dismissals, which add to those occurred already last March.
Vilca, who was present there this Wednesday to accompany the claim for his immediate reinstatement, denounced in a project that entered deputies that “these are workers of the industrial plant and the field, who were notified of the measure arbitrarily, unfairly and without cause.”
It is that, as the workers denounce, the company’s decision can only be interpreted as a direct attack on their labor rights and the stability of their families. “That is why in Assembly they resolved the total strike of activities, for an indeterminate time, until 24 people are reincorporated, of the 900 who work at the plant, which were left without employment,” says the project of authorship of the Jujeño legislator, who also subscribe their companions of the left front.
We are already accompanied by their families in their fight, on the route and also in Congress, from our benches.
From our block we present a project to reject layoffs in the tobacco and demand its immediate reinstatement. pic.twitter.com/0Z2qfUPlFO– Alejandro Vilca (@vilcalejandro) February 27, 2025
According to the complaints of the Sugar Workers Union (STA), the decision conceals the union persecution by the company, since among those dismissed are activists from the list that led to a new directive commission of the union, which he assumed in 2024, as well as direct relatives of that new union driving, also points out the text that we reproduce completely below.
“The Seabord Corporation company is a multinational that has branches throughout the world, being the former ingenuity the second with more production of bio ethanol, alcohol and sugar in the region, while the sugar sector is one of which the prices and won with devaluation and inflation has remarked, registering the elevation of the sugar bag more than 290 % in 2024, so it is clear that it does not say good FIT deputy.
As their workers denounce, both employers, that of the Ledesma ingenuity, such as that of the former tobacco, say goodbye to lower the cost of labor, to get rid of those who question it and to frighten the rest of the workers, so that they do not claim for their rights. It has the endorsement of the national government as well as the provincial governments, of Jujuy and Salta, who remain complicit in the face of business arrogance.
As the left poses, to face that alliance, it is necessary to coordinate all the struggles to defend the jobs, the employment conditions and so that not a single family is on the street.
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Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
