Overview
- Granja Tres Arroyos announced the indefinite shutdown of its Concepción del Uruguay plant, a unit that employed about 1,000 people and processed hundreds of thousands of birds daily.
- The firm attributed the closure to sustained union measures it described as stopping production and creating security problems, and said it exhausted dialogue before halting operations.
- Workers and unions counter that the crisis stems from long-running unpaid wages and staggered salary payments, with protests and walkouts reported at other GTA sites.
- A labour hearing scheduled at the Secretaría de Trabajo was suspended and authorities moved to mediate; the outcome will shape whether workers receive back pay and if the plant can reopen.
- The shutdown deepens a wider financial collapse at GTA: the company is in a preventive crisis process, has large bank debt and thousands of rejected checks, and has already moved assets to manage liabilities.