Union of Union of Farmers and Ranchers has demanded that the Administration become involved in the labour dispute open in the meat sector and assume a mediating role between the employers and the workers’ unions, coinciding with the second day of strike in the industry.
The professional farming organization requests the intervention of the Administration with the aim of "facilitating an agreement that allows an end to the strike with the utmost speed and minimizing its repercussions on the ranchers", as it has stated in a communiqué.
Union of Union warns that the blockage in the negotiation of the state agreement for the meat sector, which has led trade union organizations to call for five days of stoppage, "is having direct consequences for ranching holdings". It explains that the operation of slaughterhouses with very small volumes, or even the suspension of their activity, has resulted in the cancellation of livestock transport trucks.
Increase in costs and management problems on farms
In the same communiqué, the organization denounces that ranchers are facing serious management difficulties on holdings, along with an increase in production costs. It adds that the commercial conditions proposed may involve penalties for workers on the farms or a lower economic valuation of the animals.
Although the strike affects all livestock subsectors, Union of Union emphasizes that the impact is especially intense in pig farming, one of the areas with the highest volume of activity, and recalls that "these losses add to the delicate situation the sector is going through, marked by the increase in production costs".
The professional farming organization urges the Administration to act quickly, promote mediation between the parties, and help to unlock the dispute in order to restore normality in activity as soon as possible and prevent the main damage from falling on the ranchers.