The government announced a penalty a subsidiary of Clarín for violation of freedom of association
The Labor Minister Carlos Tomada today announced a penalty for 1,347,000 pesos to Graphic Arts River Plate (AGR), a subsidiary of Grupo Clarin, for "systematic violations of freedom of association."
"The law is for everyone, even for Clarin, the ILO Conventions are for everyone, including Clarín, union democracy is for everyone, including Clarín" remarked Taken at a news conference, accompanied by Deputy Minister of Labour Noemí Rial, and the undersecretary of that portfolio, Alvaro Ruiz.
The minister said that "it is ironic that a company that claims to defend democracy, no respect for union democracy, or freedom of association."
The penalty is referred to AGR that prevented a company workers' meeting where it was to announce union elections to choose delegates, which frustrated those elections.
"This is a fact of violation of freedom of association which violates the union representation and violates all national laws and international conventions," said Tomada.
added, "is a case that deserves special attention as stubborn and persistent in conduct." Taken
said "is not an isolated fact, quite the contrary, is the reaffirmation of a corporate policy aimed at obstructing the free exercise of freedom of association in the company."
In that regard, he recalled that the Ministry of Labour had intervened in cases such as the relocation of delegates through judgments that were rejected by the company with a series of appeals. Taken
AGR mentioned that in 2004 began with the methodology and "we began to see that there was a real campaign to block what the law requires."
That year, the company fired 110 workers as part of a dispute over claims related to working conditions.
was also established that the company sought to limit the maximum union activity through the allocation of delegates segregated spaces that were prevented from exercising their activity.
Source: Telam
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