A bonus of 40 thousand pesos per employee, which goes to the coffers of the Atilra union, got in the middle of the dairy parity and prov.

Published Feb 9, 2026

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The dairy industry sealed its new collective bargaining agreement, albeit with certain advantages for the union and not for the workers. Last Wednesday, the Dairy Industry Center (CIL) and the Association of Small and Medium-Sized Dairy Companies (Apymel) defined the wage adjustments that determine the new basic salaries, following a year in which the inflation rate was respected. With broad representation from the Association of Dairy Industry Workers of the Argentine Republic (Atilra), headed by its general secretary Héctor Ponce and his lawyer, Alberto Coronel, the signing of the new wage scale was achieved. The employer side was represented by Ercole Felipa of the CIL and Pablo Villano of Apymel, with the minutes notably citing that Villano signed "in dissent and in the minority does not subscribe to this agreement reached." It is an old demand of the SMEs to have a separate collective bargaining agreement from large companies, but this demand has not been successful. Although ...

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