The maritime workers union, Somu alleges that the fish industry chambers are “reticent” to open a round of salary negotiations and given the accumulated debts with personnel and delays in complying with the mandatory pensions contributions, “fish remains in Argentina, not a single kilo will be shipped because workers are not going to subsidize with their effort and sacrifice the exporting companies.”
A similar situation was experienced in 2008, and since Somu also includes the tugs personnel this means that no containers can be loaded to ships since the union demands from the companies to see the cargo manifesto of the vessels to ensure there are no fish or sea food products embarked. Containers loaded with fish must remain stacked in the port.
