A court authorized a workers' cooperative to operate a bankrupt meatpacking plant in Bariloche.

The prolonged battle being waged by the Jesús Arroyo Frigorífico Labor Cooperative Ltd to keep operational the only cattle processing plant in Bariloche achieved a new milestone this week, with a resolution from the Civil and Commercial Appeals Chamber that enabled the provisional continuity of that exploitation. The Frigorífico Arroyo went bankrupt seven years ago and a group of former employees organized to defend their jobs, protected by the "recovered companies" law, formed a Cooperative, and even expressed their interest in buying the plant. But this effort encountered countless setbacks, related to the delay in achieving the registration and recognition of the Cooperative and also to the judicial pressures to proceed with the auction of the assets, in consideration of the rights of the other creditors. The Civil Chamber had already ordered more than a year ago to the first instance court handling the bankruptcy to hold a hearing to resolve the Cooperative's request to ...