Overview
- Provincial officials said they support the workers’ demands but will not assume control of the Fate plant.
- Sources in the governor’s office called the union’s temporary takeover plan unworkable and said the province will instead press the national government on import policies.
- The tire workers’ union, SUTNA, plans a march to La Plata to deliver a letter requesting a meeting with Governor Axel Kicillof for a state-run stopgap that it says would protect 1,650 jobs and sustain local truck and bus tire supply.
- Fate confirmed in labor talks that it will shut the plant and said it offered full severance under Argentine law, while arguing a temporary occupation lacks legal basis under national and provincial expropriation rules.
- Negotiations under mandatory conciliation have stalled, and the province called a new hearing in Tigre as disputes continue over unpaid wages for workers who have not signed severance agreements after 920 layoffs.