“The company has not complied with mandatory conciliation for 7 days”

Last Monday, January 19, was the eighth consecutive day of the permanent assembly of the workers of Lustramax who maintain the claim for the reinstatement of those dismissed and compliance with mandatory conciliation. Without preventing the operation of the company, they remain at the Tortuguitas plant, province of Buenos Aires, where an important solidarity festival was held over the weekend.

A mobile C5N He was there to talk to the workers. We share some of your ideas.

– We have been fighting for 8 days and we are still waiting for the company to comply with the mandatory conciliation, we should be working normally today and we are not. The company has not complied with mandatory conciliation for 7 days.

– The company, in addition to not abiding by the conciliation, requests the presence of the Gendarmerie and the Buenos Aires Police and threatens us with eviction.

– We are sleeping outdoors, we have seen our children for 8 days. It’s very hard.

– They are using this conflict as a laboratory for labor reform.

– It is totally false that we are the workers who put the company in crisis, on the contrary, we are the ones who took the company forward. And he responds to us this way, with discriminatory dismissals and lies.

– Everything we are doing here is to defend our rights and for our families.

– We voted for our delegates in December and now they are firing them completely illegally. This is a prelude to labor reform.

As well stated Myriam Bregmannational representative for the PTS in the Left Unity Front, “the situation of the workers of Lustramax This is the situation of many other workers. Today there are about 140 labor conflicts in the country, with dismissals, with attacks on rights, as a globe of labor reform essay that begins to be discussed in days. In the National Congress it already has an opinion in the Senate.”