They assure that due to a union demand since March there will be a lack of bread inside the country

As of March 1, the bakery sector anticipates that there will be no bread in several provinces in the interior of the country due to a union force measure. They complain about the absence of salary recomposition inside the country since 2020, which has generated unease among workers in the sector.

Currently, the average salary of bakers in the provinces is 70,000 pesos, while in the city of Buenos Aires and the province of Buenos Aires it is almost double.

In 2023, según el acuerdo que se firmó entre el Gobierno, la CGT y el sector empresarial, el salario mínimo will increase a 20% entre diciembre y marzo, y un 110,5% en el año paritario, de marzo de 2022 a marzo de This year.

The average salary of bakers in the provinces is 70,000 pesos, while in the city of Buenos Aires and the province of Buenos Aires it is almost double

On the other hand, over the whole of 2022, the price of a kilo of French bread has increased by 113%, almost twenty points above general inflation and is one of the foods that has increased the most on average. In large urban centers, a kilo can exceed 500 pesos.

Meanwhile, inside salaries continue with no approved increase, and the chief Gaston Fruits is designated as the main responsible. Frutos, who is also CGT treasurer, has been the target of much criticism in recent months. One of them has to do with the fact that in the middle of this situation, in January, he traveled to Qatar to attend the Boca and Racing match with 20 members of the Avellaneda club’s barrabrava, showing a flag bakers.

He is also being questioned because Frutos is running for Secretary General of the Federation of Bakers, despite the fact that justice declared the elections fraudulent by a decision of Chamber V of the National Chamber of Labor Appeals in the midst of the last year.

Today, the Federation, which brings together some 12,000 workers, is in a headless crisis, as is the Obra Social of the bakers, which has prevented the standardization of wage agreements and prolonged the crisis.

This situation arouses the indignation of the workers, who have now decided to apply this measure of force to claim their rights. From the sector they assure that they expect the authorities to take measures to resolve the conflict, that the Federation intervene to normalize it, and celebrate the parities of the sector to avoid the lack of bread in the provinces.

“We must uphold workers’ rights, and for this it is essential to defend trade union democracy in the sector”, he warned. Ernest Colonel, General Secretary of Mar del Plata. While Julio Herrerahead of the Jujuy union said that “we have spent almost three years without a solution, with wages very much behind and without union representation at the national level”.

Finally, Miguel Angel Rodriguezof the La Plata union, said: “Unfortunately, the authorities need a strike to get involved and solve what justice decided more than six months ago.”

A few weeks ago and in a context of strong impact due to the severe drought that the country was facing, the Government assured that the supply of wheat for him Internal market was insured, so they rule out an escalation in the values ​​of derivatives, such as bread, flour or noodles.

“The question of price is subject to market fluctuations. We see that there is a tendency to support commodity prices, with prices worse than at the start of the war last year, but they will hold“, Bahillo then underlined. In any case, he assured that the area planted will be much less this year due to the drought. “The first piece of data is the quantity planted, then the evolution of the crops. The first class corn had a very important assignment, the second class is being sown,” the official mentioned.

In this sense, he also considered that there was a marked loss of forage area, which had an impact on the level of livestock feed, and that there were considerable losses in wheat. It is at this stage that one worries about a possible impact on the Food prices.

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