Even in the midst of the first stage of its bankruptcy proceedings—initiated in February in a Commercial Court in Rafaela—the Sancor cooperative is achieving a recovery of its activity, through the reorientation of some businesses and different agreements with other companies in the dairy sector.
These associated companies now use SanCor's installed capacity to make their products, something that brings benefits to the cooperative. This path is being marked, much to the dismay of what many leaders of the Association of Workers of the Dairy Industry of the Argentine Republic (Atilra) seem to expect.
The union is hopeful that a change in the court could provide an opportunity to fulfill the ultimate dream of its general secretary, Héctor Ponce, which would be to secure a bankruptcy for the company to subsequently form a worker cooperative that would be managed by the union itself, undoubtedly co-responsible for the path of missteps that led the cooperative to its current situation.