Adds context, union assertion
Adds context, union assertion
BUENOS AIRES, March 18 (Reuters) – Staff on the Argentine grains port hub of Rosario will begin a 24-hour strike on Friday morning to protest layoffs at one of many corporations within the sector, an official with the native CGT labor umbrella group mentioned on Thursday.
Argentina is the world’s prime exporter of soyoil, utilized in making biofuels, and soymeal livestock feed, used to fatten hogs and poultry from Europe to Southeast Asia. Rosario is residence to a number of the largest soy crushing crops on the planet.
“It has been determined that the oilseed employees will begin the strike at the beginning of the morning shift tomorrow,” mentioned Pablo Reguera, secretary of the CGT on the Rosario port of San Lorenzo. About 80% of Argentine farm exports are shipped from Rosario, on the banks of the Parana River, Santa Fe province.
The employees say they are going to strike over what they take into account low compensation for workers within the sector who’ve been laid off.
“The CGT has selected a complete stoppage of actions in all oilseed industries in San Lorenzo on Friday,” in accordance with an announcement issued on Thursday by the SOEA oilseed employees union.
The SOEA went on a 20-day wage strike in December that raised considerations about farm export flows. A spate of strikes within the sector affected worldwide grains costs earlier than they have been concluded with the signing of latest labor contracts.
(Reporting by Nicolas Misculin, writing by Hugh Bronstein, enhancing by Chris Reese and Jane Wardell)
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