Conflicts between workers and union members at Ingenio Ledesma, which ends 2025 with 300 layoffs and the worst wage agreement of the year.

Two groups of workers from the Ledesma company were on the verge of a physical confrontation on Tuesday when a dissenting sector of the union found out that the official party was holding a secret assembly with the intention of expelling the most combative delegates. The situation was prevented by the police, who held back the large group that wanted to be included in the meeting. The conflict shows the tense situation in the Jujuy area where the country's largest sugar mill is located, which has laid off about 300 people so far this year. This peak in tension occurred yesterday at five in the afternoon when about 250 to 300 workers and delegates gathered at the door of the hall of the Union of Sugar Workers and Employees of the Ledesma Sugar Mill (SOEAIL), where another sector of workers was about to hold an assembly that, according to one version, had not been properly notified. The assembly planned to address the expulsion of some delegates from the union's Executive Committee. ...