No progress in initial Arlei reconciliation talks
28/02/2014
Workers at the company’s vegetable-tanning facility in the town of Rosario de Lerma in the province of Salta, in north-west Argentina, staged a protest in support of a colleague who had been dismissed. The dismissal occurred after a disagreement between the worker concerned and the trade union he was part of, rather than as a result of any dispute with the Arlei management team.
But to secure access to and from the Rosario de Lerma tannery during shift-changeovers, the company asked local police to bring the protest to an end and this led to clashes between workers and police on February 25. The provincial authorities in Salta immediately called for representatives of the management team to hold reconciliation talks with the workers and an initial meeting took place on February 27.
Arlei, which also runs a tannery in Las Toscas in Santa Fe province and finishing, warehousing and furniture-manufacturing operations in Buenos Aires, made no statement after the talks, but the mayor of Rosario de Lerma, Sergio Ramos, told a local radio station on February 27 that there had been no progress.
“The most important thing is for talks to continue,” Mr Ramos said. “This was not the company’s problem to begin with; it was a problem between the workforce and their union, and everything that has happened has been on the back of that.”
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