Yesterday, Wednesday, the ELA trade union denounced in a statement that the Ingemar plant in Usurbil is going to close and that of the 37 wage workers there are going to be laid off 31. Ingemar S.L. The decision was taken by the management of the Galician company and by the works council composed of three representatives of the General Union of Workers (UGT) and two representatives of the IGC (Galician Trade Union Confederation).

"UGT, together with the management, has promoted the dismissal of Usurbil's workers; unfortunately, the IGC representatives have also signed the agreement. This is regrettable, because those two unions that have no representation in Usurbil have decided to leave the workers in Gipuzkoa without work," said ELA.

In addition, they have denounced the attitude of the Ingemar leadership through yesterday's note: "These managers are unscrupulous and their behavior deserves criminal prosecution." In fact, they explained that the company "blackmailed" the workers of the plant: "The company lays the condition for settling the severance pay: the workers must commit to not going to the courts". Therefore, if the Ingemens want to compensate their workers for the closure of the plant, they will not be able to go to court.

Long struggle of workers

The workers at the Usurbil plant in Ingemar began an indefinite strike in March of this year. In mid-2017, the Ingemar management presented a "SRE of extinction" for 47 people working in the Gipuzkoan plant. Of these, 31 correspond to Usurbil, 6 to Lugo and 10 to the five warehouses that are scattered in the Spanish state. The workers at Usurbil reported that the aim of the ere was "to dismiss workers from other state factories and to close the plant with assets amounting to EUR 4 million".

On the other hand, in the company's restructuring process, at the hearing in March of this year, they denounced that in 2009 the Usurbil plant began to "decapitalize" "relocating production and dismissing workers".

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