The Guardian’s employees are at the company’s doorstep in order to prevent the oven from being turned off
Since Wednesday morning, dozens of Guardian workers have gathered in front of the plant in Laudio, where workers from nearby companies have also joined them in solidarity. The guards say they will shut down the oven on Wednesday and meet to block it. The members of the business committee are inside the factory at the moment.
The 171 workers of Guardian are in the middle of a fight to defend their jobs and this Wednesday’s can be a milestone day, as the American company has declared that it will turn off the furnace of the glass plant, arguing that it is broken.
Thus, the members of the business committee formed by the unions ELA and LAB explain that the company has ordered the oven to be turned off at 8:00 a.m., without even waiting for technicians from Osalan and the Industry Department. According to EiTB.eus, citing government sources, technicians are already inside the plant.
The Ayaraldea media has explained that since 05:00 dozens of people have gathered in front of the plant, do not close the Guardian! A large banner over the door. They are local workers, but also workers of companies in the area; the mayor of Laudio, Ainize Gastaka, has also been present to show solidarity. Several vans in the area can be seen in the open images.
From 05:00, dozens of people gather in front of the plant, do not close the Guardian! A large banner over the door. They are local workers, but also workers of companies in the area
The members of the business committee are already inside the factory. However, they have previously been with the workers, telling them that the Basque Government has not met with them to explain what they have agreed with the Guardian Glass leadership at the last hour on Tuesday.
"We will not allow the destruction of 171 jobs in the region"
The Minister of Industry, Energy Transition and Sustainability, Mikel Jauregi, said that the government will send a team of technicians to "ensure the reliability and safety" of the shutdown. In any case, the unions say that the company has ordered the oven to be turned off without even waiting for the technicians.
:red_circle:LIVE COUNT | Members of the business committee report that the Guardian management has ordered the oven to be turned off, despite the fact that the technicians of the Basque Government have not been exposed in the workshop.
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The workers in the factory portal have made a first assessment of this agreement: "There has been no agreement with the workers," said Maddalen Muguruza, LAB representative, "there is no process in which there are guarantees, so we remain in the starting position. If the oven is turned off, we don't know what the odds are. We come to plant now, we ask that what is done be shared with the committee, and we will not allow the destruction of 171 jobs in the region."
The oven is best known by the staff
ELA on Tuesday called for a “precautionary” halt to the furnace shutdown, but the Supreme Court of Justice of the Basque Country has rejected the request.
The LAB, for its part, denounces to the Labor Inspectorate and the Labor Delegation the decision to shut down the oven. The union explained that the interruption of the activity of the furnace would make it "irreversible" and would also lead to the closure of the company and security problems.
"We don't know what's going to happen today, we only have a statement here, and what the cooling of the oven can bring is who knows who the local workers are," explains Mikel Etxeberria while representatives of ELA Industry are gathering.
Strike from Thursday
The statements made by Jauregi on Tuesday have caused outrage among the workers: "We ask the workers to contribute to the process of shutting down the furnace," said the Minister of Industry, hoping that this will reduce damage to the furnace and make it easier to attract new investors.
The statements made by Jauregi on Tuesday have caused outrage among the workers: "We ask the workers to contribute to the process of turning off the oven," said the Minister of Industry
It’s a hard blow to every factory worker who has been constantly on day and night, and to cool and turn off the oven they’ve been caring for and working on, even harder to have to contribute to it. But even so, the Guardian workers are not desperate and have announced that they will start an indefinite strike starting on Thursday.
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