A protest generated traffic chaos on the Panamericana at the height of Henry Ford

This Friday, union delegates from a food company carried out a total cut in the Pan-American highway, at the height of the Henry Ford street, on the hand that goes towards the province. The protest began around 6 in the morning and caused a traffic jam on one of the main roads in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, in the General Pacheco area, Tigre district of Buenos Aires.

In the court, which lasted until after 8:30 a.m., members of the National Gendarmerie They started a security operation to decompress the long lines of vehicles and control the demonstration.

From Highways of the Sun They reported that the protest caused delays in the Campana branch, at kilometer 35, for which they asked “drive with caution”.

The delegates, who belong to an internal commission of the Mondelez company, denounced the dismissal of personnel. “We are part of the commission that had to be formed because the union does not listen, they signed an act against us. Today we are suffering from increased production rates, we can’t take it anymore. This situation comes from the pandemic”, explained one of the protesters in dialogue with C5N.

“The company hires and fires personnel as it pleases, there are 1,800 people in total. We asked the Ministry of Labor for more than 70 days to intervene, we gave it more than 400 signatures. We exhaust all instances before uploading here”, he added.

For a few minutes, the demonstrators decided to move the cut towards the hand that goes towards the City of Buenos Aires, interrupting the total passage on both sides of the highway. However, after eight in the morning, only movement to the north of Buenos Aires was restricted.

Because of the protest, motorists were forced to divert your course to the collector of the Pan American Some vehicles even resumed the same route.

Also present at the court was the deputy of the PTS of the Left Front, Nicholas del Cano. “Accompanying the fight of the Mondelez (former Kraft) workers who are demanding against the layoffs of young people hired (6 batches of 300 since the pandemic) and the labor flexibility that the company imposes on its employees. They denounce that this happens in all the factories, ”said Del Caño through his Twitter account.

Keep reading: