The workers of the National Union of Workers of the Ministry of Agriculture (Sinatrama) announced the start of a 48-hour strike on Monday, November 22 and Tuesday, November 23, after considering non-compliance with a series of lawsuits filed with the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri).
According to the Secretary General of Sinatrama, Samuel Huincho, the workers who perform work in the condition of permanent rotation group, assigned to the Rural Agrarian Productive Development Program (Agro Rural), they are up to date with the remuneration scale of the year 1998.
“In 2016 we obtained a favorable ruling from an arbitration award, the same one that was prosecuted. Likewise, we achieved a collective agreement 2013-2014 and another 2018-2019, in addition to a second award in 2019. However, the Executive has not complied with the execution of any of the agreements and judicial decisions, despite having three minutes extra-process subscribed in the last years ”, explained the leader.
In this sense, workers in the agriculture sector report that all negotiation mechanisms have been exhausted and therefore they are forced to abide by a general stoppage.
“We have been on the same pay scale for 23 years, more than 13 years of conversations without results. We hold the former ministers and senior officials of the former Midagri responsible for systematically postponing and violating labor rights won in various ways, maintaining an anti-worker, anti-union policy and non-respect for the International treaties of the ILO, which protect the fundamental rights of workers. workers, ”he said.
In their platform of struggle, they point out that Agro Rural has a presence at the national level with 20 Zonal Units and 92 Zonal Offices, and that they execute more than a third of the budget of sheet 013. However, the remuneration of workers is less than half of what Senasa, Serfor and ANA pay.
Sinatrama: farmers in emergency
During the state of emergency, Agro Rural workers have continued to work normally, guaranteeing the provision of food to large cities through technical assistance to producers and Itinerant Fairs.
“As a result, several collaborators have died. However, the Executive has never taken them into account at least to grant them a bonus, ”explained Huincho.
Given this, the union members warned that, if their demands are not met, they could initiate an indefinite national strike that could affect the food supply chain in Peru and make the basic family basket even more expensive.
“In these two days of paralysis, workers, their families and users hope that the authorities, instead of repressing us, reflect and call us to implement collective agreements, arbitration awards and the homologation of remunerations, considering the conflict is over. ”, Remarked the leader.
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