The firm Vieira SA, located in Puerto Deseado, has started sending dismissal telegrams to its employees. (Photo: Stock File/FIS)

Vieira’s workers given the sack

ARGENTINA
Tuesday, August 28, 2012, 23:10 (GMT + 9)

Workers from the plant belonging to the firm Vieira SA in Puerto Deseado, Santa Cruz province, started to receive dismissal telegrams on Friday.

For a month, the employees have remained on the premises of the company so as to demand payment of their wages and that the fleet -- two jiggers and five beam trawlers -- retake its activity at sea.

Some 180 workers of the Galician capital ship owning firm explained the mayor of Puerto Deseado, Luis Ampuero, that they are experiencing a "dramatic" situation, the newspaper Mar y Pesca reported.

Meanwhile, the official informed them that the governor of Santa Cruz, Daniel Peralta, had chosen an auditor for the company: the president of the City Council, Diego Marzioni.

Vieira’s employees said that the owners would be managing a creditor’s meeting to avoid in this way the "express expropriation," which is intended by four deputies from Santa Cruz that are representatives of the political party to which the President of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, belong.

Meanwhile, Víctor Aguilar, general secretary of the Workers' Union of Food Industries (STIA), stated: "People are receiving a telegram. We know the firm Vieira is already in a situation, it could be said, that is completely outside the plant, outside the boats."

According to Prensa Libre, last night governor Peralta signed the decree setting the intercession of Vieira SA. The measure, which to start with would be for 60 days, includes the processing plant, the building where the cold storage works and its fleet.

A police guard will be responsible for guarding the plant and the fleet.

STIA representatives indicated that the main priority of the company that will exploit Vieira is that the vessels start fishing before permits expire due to inactivity.

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By Analia Murias
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