Truckers claim membership of some of Mercado Libre's staff

Truckers claim affiliation to his staff guild that the company intends to the new complex

The opening of a logistics center managed by Mercado Libre, near the central market, has opened the door to a trade union conflict that may worsen in the coming weeks. Marcos Galperin, Founder of US $ 22,687 Million E-Commerce Company and One of the Business's Most Listening to the President

Mauricio Macri

. On the other hand, the Moyano family, confronted with the government, claiming that the 80 employees working on the site must be members of the truckers' union.

The conflict began recently, after the start of operation of the logistics complex, the first of its kind in which the company operates in the country, after similar initiatives in Brazil and Mexico. For its operation, Mercado Libre has badigned its 80 workers to the Union of Loading and Unloading Workers, headed by Daniel Vila. During this process, they signed a special collective agreement for the company with the union, approved by the Ministry of Production and Labor, in charge of

Dante Sica

.

The company's initiative was met with resistance from the truckers' union, which leads

Hugo Moyano

. The former head of the

CGT

He suspects that the badembly of the storage and distribution center would affect the activities of different private mail companies, which governs agreement 40/89, that of truckers. Moyano's speculations go even further: he thinks it could be the first step for Marcos Galperin, the owner of Mercado Libre, to stay at OCA, the largest postal company in the country, declared bankrupt by a million-dollar debt with AFIP. In OCA, which Moyano considered almost as his own, 7,000 employees work, including 6,300 affiliated with Truckers.

"The Free Mercado is not a framing dispute between unions, but many OCA jobs, Andreani, Ocasa and Urbano are threatened." By order of the government, the company does not want to have any link with the truckers because she wants to reduce labor costs.It is political, said the company, "said Marcelo Aparicio, the union's number three and who would have negotiated with Galperin on the eventual landing of truckers at the Central Market plant.

I raise disproportionate

"It's nonsense to lift it," they say in Free Mercado, during a dialogue with LA NACION. According to them, after the start of the operation of the complex, informal contacts were held with the Guild of Moyano, where a possible hardening of the conflict was insinuated.

"For the moment, we dialogue, we listen to their arguments and we understand that they [por Camioneros] They do not agree, but we do not accept the request because we did what the law says. No negotiations are in progress, "they say.

The Mercado Libre logistics center located in Villa Madero, near the Mercado Central, replicates similar initiatives to those already operating in Brazil and Mexico. Its construction began last year and required a $ 725 million investment from Plaza Logística. A few weeks ago, the first 35,000 m2 of a complex providing for a second stage and an additional 30,000 m2 in July were activated.

There, the company receives products from suppliers who use its platform and is responsible for managing the logistics of shipments. The 80 operators are responsible for receiving the parcels, sorting the goods, storing them temporarily and badembling the parcels which are then removed by different mail processing companies.

The showdown between Galperin and Moyano has just begun. The tension is latent due to the complicated situation of the OCA and the possible loss of jobs in the rest of the postal companies, which, according to the trucker, would be a consequence of the mega Free Market project.

The businessman has also made it known publicly that he prefers to have no connection with Truckers. "We already have a collective agreement with the loading and unloading, which is the good and approved by the Ministry of Production and Labor," they informed the company, according to the same source.
Infobae.

The wheeled empire that motivated Moyano to build a statutory reform validated by the Ministry of Labor in 2003, largely because of Kirchnerism, has recently come to power. This has expanded the functions of the sector.

Since then, the union has been responsible for the affiliation not only of vehicle drivers, but also of loading and unloading employees and people performing the filing tasks.

This is how the modified union executive has added to the truck driver thousands of members from different fields. The extension of powers forced Moyano to change the acronyms of the federation: he added the word "logistics", key term in the encyclopedia of the renewed truck to advance tasks that historically corresponded to others. unions.

With the collaboration of Nicolás Balinotti