Astillero Rio Santiago: union tightening, negotiated and astronomical wages – 30/07/2018

A Report of the Program Journalism for All Leading Jorge Lanata on Sunday Revealed the Case of Astillero Rio Santiago a shipbuilding and repair company located in the porteño party of Ensenada whose production is paralyzed ten years ago despite an badigned budget of 3,600 million pesos.

The shipyard, which operates in the orbit of the Ministry of Production of the Province of Buenos Aires, has 3,300 employees but according to the complaints of the Government, there is truchos and others who impose wages without rendering any service.

Since the decision they badert that the guild ATE Ensenada uses some of the money as their own "caja" in addition to receiving a complaint for threats against shipyard authorities.

According to the Minister of Labor of Buenos Aires, Marcelo Villegas the company only "covers that its production 1% of its operating cost, the rest of this sum is covered by the public treasury ".

One of the irregularities is in the dining room. The provincial deputy for change Guillermo Castello explained that the union keeps employees of their salary "1,300 pesos a month to use the dining room", although only about 1,200 attend.

"This is a box that receives ATE of 51 million This money ends up being the union ," he added

On the other hand, the minister specified that there are about 100 employees "dispensed." "These are people who have acquired conditions to retire and when they are warned by the company that they stop lending, that is to say that all the time of retirement, they stop working but they charge "

according to the official, this implies" 116 million pesos. "In addition, they found " people who have never done the process and who have been dispensed for years "

Another source of corruption is the contracts truchos The Attorney General of the Province of Buenos Aires , Julio Conte Grand, stated that "were contracts in which people did not provide services"

Castello , MP We change, he said on this point that there are "more than 95 truchos employees who never went to work"

Meanwhile, the Minister of Labor also warned that during years they held the sums corresponding to the income tax that is to say a significant tax evasion.

The provincial government also revealed that employees accused "a plus for the productivity of the order" n 50% " and that" absolutely nothing of that had any control. "

Also, the present direction of the shipyard, in the hands of Daniel Capdevilla denounced before the Court a tightening by the guild According to Conte Grand, the situation s & # 39 is produced when "between 12 and 15 people who identified themselves as members of the trade union, tried to enter to see him (the president), entered by force and l '" one of these people strongly threatened the director of legal affairs. "

The shipyard of Santiago River has not finished ship for almost a decade . According to MP Castello, "in 2004" the then President Néstor Kirchner and his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chávez, "tried to bail out the yard because it had no productivity" and that is why "1120 million dollars were paid"

In parallel, the workers of the shipyard badure that there exists a governmental plan of Mauricio Macri and Maria Eugenia Vidal to empty the state company and privatize it .

On this line, on Friday, they rallied to show their vigilance and ask for funds to continue production.

In response to these complaints, the union ATE Ensenada said Sunday on his Twitter account: "A #AstilleroRioSantiago, we ask for investment for years, we went to work on the street." The government buys ships in France when they can do it. Argentina for half the price, ships rejected in 5 countries including France.

In addition, workers campaigned on social media with the hashtag #PPTLanataElArsNoSeToca.