A week after the detection of an outbreak of coronavirus in a large Belgian factory of AB InBev, production was still blocked there today and the conflict with the unions “dead end», Lamented the management of the Belgian-Brazilian brewing giant.
Solidarity with our comrades from AB INBEV stopped due to a COVID cluster in the company. They denounce the shortcomings of HR in the management of the crisis and demand concrete and effective measures for all. #together we are stronger #fgtb #liege pic.twitter.com/vZcLLLfwff
– FGTB Liège (@fgtbliege) September 7, 2020
At the Jupille plant (750 employees), where the conflict broke out on September 3, the FGTB demanded the departure of the director of human resources and the prevention advisor, who are accused of having badly anticipated the anti- coronavirus.
«We can’t go back, we want answers about what happened“, Patrick Rehan, regional secretary of the FGTB-alimentation told AFP. Among the eleven employees who tested positive, two had to be hospitalized, one of whom is still “in critical condition”.
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After a court decision which allowed the vehicles blocking the entrances to be lifted at the start of the week, pickets were maintained and “several people received serious threats from the union“, Blasted AB InBev in a statement, also speaking of”sabotage».
Patrick Rehan denied these accusations, assuring for his part that the management sought to “intimidate»Union officials by using a bailiff to ascertain the blockages.
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In solidarity with the Jupille-sur-Meuse site (Wallonia, east), where around ten cases of Covid-19 have been identified, employees of the Flemish factories in Louvain and Hoegaarden have been called on by union officials to observe a shutdown working today. The FGTB (socialist) and ACV (Christian) unions criticize the management of “consider production more important than the safety and health of its employees».
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