this thursday they march to work

After the "agreement" between the multinational Coca-Cola and the Sutiaga Soft Drink Syndicate, with the approval of Minister Dante Sica and the Macri government to send 32 workers from the Femsa factory to the porteño district of Pompeya change of deactivation of the order of preventive crisis procedure), began the layoffs.

Factory workers reported that around 20 people had been fired Wednesday and told various media outlets: "They want to arrange a withdrawal, so that it does not appear that there is layoffs at Coca ". In addition, they said: "We do not want the government to approve the maneuver of the employer".

In a statement issued a few minutes ago, Coca Cola Femsa workers and an opposition group denounced that "the dismissal agreement signed by the company and the union is perverse". It was clear to the entire population, the families of Coca Cola and consumers, that this multinational did not experience a crisis and therefore did not approve the presentation of the crisis prevention procedure. Unfortunately, with the approval of the Ministry of Labor, the employers and the government signed a dismissal agreement, leaving the field open for this enterprise. billionaire to leave more families on the street, while raising prices indiscriminately ".

#URGENTE Coca-Cola started with the redundancy plan agreed upon with the leaders of Sutiaga, now separated from ten workers. Tomorrow, trial at Callao and Corrientes and mobilization with the Secretary of Labor to reject the dismissals.

– Fernando Rosso (@RossoFer) February 27, 2019

The Argentine judicial system reinstated four of the dismissed workers. They were dismissed in a discriminatory and persecutory way in 2015. "For this company, the Argentine judicial system is a puppet and most of the dismissed are members of the group." One month after the election of the delegates to the union. Pompeii factory, we denounce the fact that, with the support of the government and the trade union, Coca Cola makes manifestly discriminatory and persecutory dismissals on workers who have not organized retreats with the company and those who are planted in the face of redundancies and flexibilisation policies, unlike the blacklisted union, they treat us like stone guests, concluding an agreement behind us to move forward with labor reform in a context of poverty, redundancies, mbadive closures, increase of the cost of living with tarifazos and prices of the basic basket.For this reason, we come to bring our voice, "said the workers.

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Similarly, members of the Coca Cola Women's Commission denounce: "While the company makes posters in the street where it says" the first thing is the family ", the workers are dismissed. to occupational and psychological illnesses resulting from 12-hour workdays, rotating shifts, etc. It is also an attack and a bad treatment for Coca Cola employees who make efforts so that their colleagues can continue to work This workload, the badumption of many domestic tasks or the obligation to keep precarious and poorly paid jobs in order to be able to take care of their family, is how this enriched company at the price of our lives deals with they are worth more than their earnings. "

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Workers repudiate "the perverse agreement between the parties that decided that there were redundancies behind the real workers and we will not give up". We redouble the fight against these attacks by the Coca Cola Femsa employers' badociation and the union guaranteed by the government, and In collaboration with the Commission of Women, our families and other sectors in struggle this Thursday, we will make a break at Corrientes and Callao at 7 o'clock, then we will mobilize the Ministry of Labor to say NO to the dismissals at Coca Cola. "

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