2023-08-29 17:11:00
Workers of Cerámica Neuquén are on alert for the new date for the auction of the factory and between the conflict, the CALF electricity cooperative cut service. The president of the Confluencia Cooperative that manages the factory, Bernardo Retamale, explained to RIO NEGRO RADIO that is due to non-payment of an invoice of more than 7 millionso today they marched to the cooperative where I know met with managers. No positive resultswarned of new measures of force, while the auction of the factory arrives.
The workers went to CALF at 8 to meet with the Administrative Council and were received by managers, while a cut in Bahía Blanca and Miter streets.
Retamale said “we raised a counterproposal to pay half of that bill of 7 million, because it is what we could, resigning the salary of each one for the debt, the delivery of material but they did not accept it ».
The president of the cooperative that manages the factory indicated that the directors planted that the payment must be of the entire bill, otherwise they do not restore the service. “They did not even say to consider it and to see if they called us later, so that was it,” he explained.
“We consider that it is an attack on labor management, we have the willingness to pay but the rates are advancing for everyone, “he said. «It is what they are now using to close a factory with 80 jobs, It’s a crime,” he said.
The president of the cooperative explained “we know who the president of CALF is, we know where he comes from and what interests does it represent, That is why it is so easy for him to cut off the power to a factory that employs eighty workers.
Regarding the measures of force, he commented that soon they will inform how the fight plan follows.
«We ask that change the name of the meter that is as Neuquén Ceramics It has been a long time and we have not been able to change it to the name of the cooperative”, he commented. “They require is that the meter be changed to the name of the cooperative, but that we recognize the debt, of which we recognize it, but we seek another solution together with the Government, “he concluded.
A little less than a month ago, the lawyer for Cerámica Neuquén, Mariano Pedrero, indicated that a judicial resolution was issued by Labor Court No. 1 what set auction date for the factory for October 27 at 11, “Which put on alert and there is a lot of concern from the workers of the labor management.”
In the midst of the conflict, the workers face the power outage carried out by the CALF light cooperative for non-payment of an invoice that exceeds 7 million pesos. “He we have been suffering from it since 2021when rates came from the national government and were applied through CALF,” Retamale said.
On that occasion, the bill, which came to one and a half million pesos, doubled and month by month they noticed increases, the workers said. «We couldn’t afford that cost and we met with the CALF authorities, where we arranged to be able to keep paying the same amount and look for a way out“, detailed the president of the cooperative that manages the factory. «we never could manage to have some progress in a rate a little more in line with the production of the factory and all that, “he said.
Retamale reported that they agreed, by word of mouth, to increase the rate to 2 million, but the resignation of the authorities destabilized the agreement. He recounted, “also we had production stopped because it is increasing all of us in dollars, the raw material, the clay and all the inputs”.
Given the news of the electricity rate and the possibility of cutting off the service, the workers arranged hold an assembly yesterday, but They found themselves without light in the building. «We went to CALF, we were received by part of the administrative council and they told us thatand during the day they were going to release the electricity service to us, but when We came back and they informed us that it was not going to be like that»Retamale detailed.
The president of the cooperative that manages the factory narrated that in 2014 when the factory was being occupied, CALF bills kept coming. «Not only the 5 months that we were unemployed when the company left, The invoice was arriving and we took charge of making a payment plan, ” counted.
“We found out that the company received a 70% subsidy that did not run more and we pay the bill net of the payment”, explained Retamale. “Always It was increasing and we were paying, until this happened, the auction thing, “he added.
The workers decided go to the factory in the pandemic so as not to risk eviction“but generated a debt, because we were not producing, the bill kept coming the same,” he said. “We made a payment plan and these big rates began to arrive,” she said.
Retamale stated “we always had willingness to pay, we think we have to pay for energy, but We question these tariffs”. “It seems crazy to us to pay a bill of 7 million per month to a factory, a cooperative on which 80 families depend,” she said.
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