Overview

• Vassalli employees have halted production and staged intermittent blockades on National Route 33 in Firmat to press demands over unpaid mid-June and July wages.
• Union leaders report the factory still owes full July salaries, the proportional aguinaldo and part of June pay for roughly 280 workers.
• The company has delivered 400,000-peso transfers per employee this week following an earlier 300,000-peso advance, but union officials say these amounts fall short of the total debt.
• Labor Minister Roald Báscolo maintains the situation involves salary delays rather than large debts and will mediate between the Marsó-led management and the UOM.
• Vassalli, founded in 1949 and acquired by the Marsó family in January 2024, is Argentina’s only nationally capitalized harvester manufacturer operating at a 5% market share.