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SOMU agreement with Freezer shipwners Chambers
ARGENTINA
Friday, April 16, 2021, 05:00 (GMT + 9)
Was signed yesterday the salary update in the basics that takes the salary of the plant manager from 24 thousand to 28,300 pesos to September and 34 thousand pesos from October to March 2022. It reaches trawlers, double rigged shrimp trawlers, spider crabs and those who fish scallops. 25% of the production will be paid as a non-remunerative sum. They set a value per day for close contacts.
The business chambers of freezer trawlers, duble rigged shrimp trawler, spider crabs and scallops nucleated in CAPIP, CAPECA and CEPA, agreed this Wednesday with the United Maritime Workers Union (SOMU) the salary update for the workers included in the CCT 486/07 of CAPIP , CCT 729/15 of CAPECA and CCT 579/10 of CEPA, from April 1, 2021 to March 30, 2022.
The parties agree to raise the basic sailing salary of the Plant Sailor category from April 1 to September 30, 2021 to the sum of 28,300 thousand pesos. As of October 1, 2021 and until March 30, 2022 they will charge 32 thousand pesos.
The increase is applicable to all seamanship and craft personnel. Last year the basic had been at 24 thousand pesos so the first increase would be 18% and the second tranche, 25%.
As is customary, the salary update will also impact the other fixed values of the collective agreements of each business chamber: francs, orders, port guard and other concordant ones.
The proportional salary for production, which had generated the crack last year and which caused the late start of the tangon freezer season, will be paid according to the values of each agreement, “without any change”, the signed agreement clarifies.
It was established in the Minutes of Agreement to which Revista Puerto had access that 25% of the value arising from this amount of production will be settled “temporarily and exceptionally as non-remunerative for the freezer fleet until March 30, 2022 ". That "transience" seems to have come to stay.
They will also be settled as non-remunerative amounts in 25% of the additional denominated “warehouse plus” or “warehouse additional” according to each collective agreement.
The fifth article establishes that the non-remunerative amounts will be computed for all purposes on the calculation of all salary and compensation items that make up the salary.
In the agreement there was space for the health issue. Business chambers and the union established a commitment to carry out all preventive obligations and compliance with the protocols by the companies.
Workers affected by close contact during tide will be treated operationally in accordance with the provisions of the health protocol and will be remunerated with 4,500 pesos per day of isolation and until full compliance for all categories of conventional non-remunerative.
The agreement was signed by Raúl Durdos, Secretary General of SOMU, who was accompanied by Juan Navarro, Secretary of Fisheries, José Valderrama, joint delegate and Damián Basail, deputy secretary of the Mar del Plata Section, among other leaders.
On the employer's side, CAPIP was represented by its peer, Hugo Vence; Eduardo Boeiro and Eduardo Román, representing CAPECA as president and manager respectively, and Darío Sócrate, for CEPA.
Now we have to see how the other novel that remains open continues. That of the CEPA, Moscuzza, Solimeno and Xeitosiño companies, which liquidated the sailors from their tangon boats in the 2020 harvest under the CAPECA agreement. The extended mandatory conciliation of said conflict expires on Friday 16.
After now signing the 2021 values with CEPA, SOMU would not seem very willing to radicalize the conflict with a measure of force because of something that happened last year. Or at least it would be somewhat ambiguous. It remains to be seen what SIMAPE does, which had also decreed a measure of force that was frozen by the conciliation.
Author: Roberto Garrone/ Revista Puerto
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