Overview
- FATE told a Buenos Aires Province labor hearing Wednesday that more than 70% of its 920 workers accepted severance, leaving 256 on the rolls and too few specialists to safely restart the Victoria tire plant.
- A federal labor appeals chamber ordered the company to pay wages through June, and FATE is weighing an extraordinary appeal to the Supreme Court, according to press reports.
- SUTNA escalated pressure Wednesday by marching to the governor’s offices in La Plata, delivering a petition for a meeting with Axel Kicillof to seek provincial intervention.
- Union leaders also met with national deputy Máximo Kirchner, who voiced support for the workers and criticized President Javier Milei’s policies in public comments.
- SUTNA is pushing a provincial bill for temporary state-backed occupation and worker management of the factory, which drew support from ATE as provincial officials called the idea unworkable in local reporting.