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CABCorp (PepsiCo) outsources in middle of collective bargaining

    

The slow process of collective bargaining between the Union of Beverage Industry and allied workers’ (STIBYS) and CABCorp (PepsiCo), has been even more affected by the decision of the transnational to restructure illegally and outsource the Warehouse Department and Direct Labour in Tegucigalpa.

 

 In its last News Bulletin the Bargaining Committee of STIBYS denounced once again the dilatory strategy and the intransigent attitude of  CABCorp (PepsiCo), alerting also to the unilateral decision of the enterprise to restructure and outsource the Warehouse Department in the Agency in Tegucigalpa.

 

According to the vice president of STIBYS, Porfirio Ponce, the transnational enterprise ignored the proposal of the Union Bargaining Committee to face that issue in the frame of the collective bargaining. 

 

“In July 2010 the enterprise summoned us to start restructuring in the Warehouse Department, claiming that in the first two shifts there was almost no work.

 

Our answer was that rather than that, staff should be increased and this issue dealt with in the frame of the collective bargaining.However, the enterprise decided the staff adjustment in a unilateral way¨, explained to Sirel, the director of STIBYS.

Outsourcing

in a wild way 

The enterprise reduced the first shift workers from 17 to 6 and from 27 to 16 those of the second shift, outsourcing the majority of these positions and relocating the permanent workers in other areas.

 

With this restructuring operation, the enterprise reduced the first shift workers from 17 to 6 and from 27 to 16 those of the second shift, outsourcing the majority of these positions and relocating the permanent workers in other areas.

 

“The enterprise is resorting to the Temporary Job Law, which was approved last year, to outsource the area, lower costs and affect the Union.

 

The Human Resources Department stated very clearly that restructuring had to be done no matter how, getting rid of permanent workers and keeping the temporary ones, because with the wage of a permanent worker three temporary ones are paid, Ponce claimed.

 

According to the Bargaining Committee of STIBYS, the negative effects of this decision are already evident.

 

“The routes of the second shift cannot carry out their jobs because there is not enough staff to do the loading.

 

 They even had to call confidential employees to fulfill a task for which they are not qualified, asserted the vice president of STYBYS.

 

Faced with this situation, STIBYS emphasized once again CABCorp (PepsiCo) unwillingness to sign the new Collective Agreement in the phase of Direct Talks and continue with its dilatory strategy to wear the Bargaining Committee of the Union down.

 

We keep on demanding not to outsource all permanent jobs. That is why we have already brought a complaint before the Ministry of Labour against the enterprise decision to restructure the Warehouse Department at the margins of the collective bargaining, Ponce concluded.

 

From Tegucigalpa, Giorgio Trucchi

Rel-UITA

April 13, 2011

 

 

 

 

 

Photo: Giorgio Trucchi

 

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