The Governing Committee of the Federation of Food Industry Workers of Argentina (FTIA) denounced today in a press release that Kraft Foods has laid off 150 workers from its  General Pacheco plant, including some union leaders and members of its internal steering committee.

 

FTIA called Kraft’s move a “wholly unjustified decision, devoid of any social responsibility, with no respect for applicable laws in force and totally groundless, as well as being degrading for workers as it tramples their rights and seeks to install fear and force as valid instruments for maximizing their profits.”

 

“It is absolutely unacceptable -the Federation’s press release continues- that workers be made to suffer the consequences of this company’s unscrupulous policy, whose actions are aimed at covering its true intention of intensifying and exacerbating the conflict to continue applying mass and indiscriminate layoffs. Which is why this Federation expresses its firm solidarity with and support to the Union of Food Industry Workers of Buenos Aires.”

 

FTIA further announced that by way of the IUF it “will denounce Kraft internationally for the violations of workers’ rights in our country.”

 

The Latin American Regional Office of the IUF extends its deepest solidarity with the laid off workers and plans to remain in permanent contact with FTIA to begin coordinating possible joint actions for the immediate future. We will expand on this information soon.