He Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTSS) reached an agreement with the Maritime Intergremial of Uruguay to guarantee special unemployment insurance for workers in the fishing, a sector that is in a “delicate situation” and on the verge of “collapse.”
The Uruguayan fishing sector is in the middle of a conflict in which the business chambers—the Chamber of Fisheries Industries of Uruguay (CIPU) and the Chamber of Fishing Shipowners of Uruguay (CAPU)— they denounce the unviability of the activity outside the harvest months due to high costs; while many workers find themselves without income and unable to work.
In this framework, and after the support of the PIT-CNT At the request of the Maritime Intergremial, the MTSS agreed to special unemployment insurance for the sector, which will be retroactive from this month.
In this regard, the leader of the Single Union of Sea and Related Workers —which is part of the Intergremial—, Alexis Pintos, He told Radio Monte Carlo that “the news is positive,” but that it leaves “a bit of a bitter taste because of what we expected and understood that it had to be more of a reflection of what a daily wage of any kind is.” fishing workersailor, fishing skipper or engineer.”
Likewise, he pointed out that “it is a patch on an urgent situation,” and clarified that there was a commitment to implement the insurance before the end of February so that in the first days of March, workers in the fishing sector can collect the corresponding retroactive payment.
The dispute between companies and fishing workers
Pintos also explained that the meeting in which the head of the MTSS, Pablo Mieres, “It revolved around the need to go out to work.” Likewise, he announced that there will be an upcoming meeting with the authorities: “we think it is interesting because there we should define what is going to happen with the fishing sector, if it continues or it doesn’t continue”.
In this regard, the fishing chambers expressed through a public communication that fishing activity becomes unviable outside the months known as “harvest harvest” between May and August due to high costs of all kinds, and they denounced the salary agreement with the unions in the sector.
For his part, Pintos had already pointed out that “this is not the first time” that fishing companies use these strategies to “take hostages and use workers and strikes to obtain some tax reduction or some type of benefit from the State.”
In dialogue with Monte Carlo, the union leader assured that “today the reality is that they are taking the fishing sector to a place where workers have been saying for a long time, which is the zafrality, which we understand does not exist.”
He also denounced that the desire of the companies is “to keep our right, which is the bonus retirement, There we have another problem, because we already said it: if they come for the subsidized retirement, here we can say it publicly, fishing is over for them.”
2024-02-24 18:34:40
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