The telegrams began to arrive: uncertainty grows in a Buenos Aires town due to the closure of a poultry plant and the possibility of numerous layoffs

On the weekend, The company informed its more than 1,000 employees of the cessation of work in the slaughter plant “until further notice” starting last Monday “due to the lack of electricity supply and other operational and productive issues derived from circumstances of force majeure and public knowledge, which affect the normal development of the activity.”

Strictly speaking, The firm employs 1,086 people in said plant, of which 864 are residents of Capitán Sarmientowhich They haven’t been paid for two months and they owed in bonus. Taking into account that the city has around 20,000 inhabitants, the decision of the company, the main industry of the town, has a considerable impact.

In dialogue with Clarín Ruralthe mayor of the Buenos Aires party, Fernanda Astorinorecounted the situation of the plant, its employees and the citizens, as well as the talks he had with the owners of Granja Tres Arroyos and the provincial government and the actions to support the workers from the municipality.

From Granja Tres Arroyos they told Arostino that there was going to be a sharp cut in the workforce: “What we know and what they told us is that there was going to be a decrease in the personl”. Although there are no details in this regard, the firm told Astorino that the cut was going to be “quite important”. At the closing of this note, The municipality confirmed that the telegrams began to reach employees.

“What we know is that the plant is in crisis and that it is a problem of the company that has been going through a complicated situation for several months and that this is the product of the firm’s own internal decisions.. The consequences are being paid by workers and their families.who are very uncertain due to everything that is happening with the debt of salaries and bonuses,” Astorino commented.

According to Captain Sarmiento’s mayor, the company held meetings at the beginning of the year with its employees, to whom they were told that “The situation (at the plant) was going to stabilize. The promise was that in the month of May the situation would be reactivated and accommodated.”“It is worth mentioning that already in January the employees received their salaries late.

“But the situation was getting worse, today we find ourselves like this,” said Astorino and added: “from the municipality we are accompanying from the first moment, assisting them with food, talking with the electrical service providers such as electricity, the water cooperative and social works to help families who today have difficulties paying and not cut off their services or benefits.”

The last communication that the community leader had with company directors was on Monday, when the plant was paralyzed. Likewise, he maintains direct contact with the governor of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, and with the provincial Ministry of Labor, “which is at the tables working on this conflict.”

“People are very worried. They ask us to intervene, although it is not an issue that falls directly to the municipality, because it is a private company, and they ask us for more sources of work, which is what we are doing. We do not sit idly by. We have been doing it for quite some time, not putting obstacles, being an open municipality, so that new companies decide and choose to come to Capitán Sarmiento,” he concluded.