Crisis in the meat industry: another slaughterhouse on the brink of bankruptcy

The Viñuela meat processing plant, one of the historic meat processing plants in Bahía Blanca, is at the center of a labor conflict that reflects the structural crisis facing part of the Argentine meat sector. The company, currently undergoing an advanced bankruptcy process, has salary debts to its 55 workers, some of whom have not received income for almost half a year. The situation is so critical that there is a possibility that the meat processing plant will go bankrupt definitively. The general secretary of the Meatworkers' Union, Pablo Barayazarra, confirmed to LU2 that the situation has become "unsustainable" and that the union has been working with the Ministry of Labor to obtain an audience with the trustee administering the company. "We have not received any kind of response to the demands presented. It is a long-standing conflict, and the workers are in a very complicated situation," he said. The union leader explained that all personnel are affected by the lack of ...