there is no compliance with the obligatory conciliation due to the conflict/the day
In a tense hearing at the national Labor Ministry, there was no agreement between representatives of the Aubasa company and the employees enrolled in the Sutpa Toll Union. In this way, yesterday marked a new day with high barriers on the La Plata -Buenos Aires highway, and on the routes of the Atlantic corridor.
In this context of antagonistic positions, it is in the realm of uncertainty when the payment of tolls will return to normal in all affected corridors.
According to sources from Aubasa, each day the barriers are erected means a loss of 55 million pesos for the company.
Yesterday different acts were signed in the national labor portfolio with the positions of both parties. From the Aubasa company they are evaluating salary discounts for the days of unemployment in which the mandatory conciliation imposed by the Ministry of Labor is not complied with and the difficulties that the lack of collection of tolls means for the company were raised.
Meanwhile, the union stated that “Aubasa wants the union to disappear”, in a “serious attempt against the fundamental rights of workers.
INTIMATION
It should be noted that the Ministry of Labor had imposed mandatory conciliation since January 2 and for fifteen days in the conflict between the Single Union of Toll and Allied Workers and the company Autopistas de Buenos Aires. And in turn, demands that the situation be reversed, lifting the union the measure of force that began last Sunday.
In this context, the government ordered the union not to adopt protest measures and the company not to retaliate.
However, the union did not abide by the mandatory conciliation, explaining that “mandatory conciliation does not annul the constitutional right to strike” and adds that the company was the one that failed to comply with such an instance by dismissing a worker that the ministry ordered to reinstate “.
TENSE AUDIENCE
While the barriers erected continue, yesterday a new hearing was held at the Ministry of Labor of the Nation that was very tense.
As it was learned, the company and the province of Buenos Aires ratified the complaints they made in the file initiated by the conflict and remarked that “the non-compliance of the union entity and the workers has been verified”, for which reason it was requested that the corresponding fines and sanctions are applied for the current conflict and previous breaches”. The climate reached such a point that even “the cancellation of the union’s legal status” was requested.
The company also made a reservation to apply individual sanctions and anticipated that there will be salary discounts and will promote the company’s exclusion from the union for “failing to comply with its partner duties and being responsible for the loss of company resources.
Meanwhile, from the union they stated that the conflict revealed the degree of ignorance of all rights shown by those responsible for the company, absolutely bankrupt, which in 2022 lost almost 5 billion pesos due to lack of management and adequate policies ”. They also advanced that “if we do not put down dictatorial, anti-rights and anti-democratic attitudes, we will resort to national and international courts.”
