Overview
- After an August 18 hearing in Rosario, the company and the UOM announced a preliminary agreement and entered a cuarto intermedio to finalize terms next week.
- The company pledged additional partial payments this week, following a transfer of 400,000 pesos to each employee intended to ease tensions.
- Union leaders said on August 19 that workers rejected the 400,000‑peso offer and are seeking at least 1,000,000 pesos per person to resume work.
- Management acknowledges debts for July wages and the proportional aguinaldo, says June salaries were covered, and ties payment capacity to sales and financing conditions.
- The Firmat plant, with roughly 280 employees and recent intermittent blockades on Ruta 33, remains in limbo pending new transfers and the next meeting.