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JBS Group - Friboi is not content with exploiting its workers; it also wants to humiliate them

 

On Oct. 4, the workers of the JBS - Friboi plant at Campo Grande, in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, launched a strike to protest the company's refusal to negotiate. What initially looked like a change of attitude on the part of Friboi turned out to be a confirmation that the company takes its workers for fools and underestimates their capacity to struggle.

 

Sirel spoke with Vilson Gimenes, president of the Meat Industry Workers Union of Campo Grande, who reported that the company contacted the union announcing it had a proposal.

 

The union met with company representatives only to find out that the proposal was just a ruse: if we ended the strike and the workers resumed their tasks completely, then the company would agree to begin negotiations.

 

According to Vilson Gimenes, “They're mocking us. This proposal is absurd, and they know we can't accept it. But they probably came up with it so that they won't show up empty-handed when we go before the Labor Court and the Labor Ministry, where we have already denounced the antiunion and irresponsible attitude of JBS - Friboi Campo Grande.

 

The union rejected this humiliating proposal, and continues to denounce the presence of some 50 scabs illegally hired by the company, which is even housing some them in facilities rented by JBS - Friboi. This situation will be addressed today in the Labor Ministry. 

From Montevideo, Carlos Amorín

Rel-UITA

October 18, 2010

 

 

 

 

 

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