Train workers have not received their October payments and expect to receive, at the end of November, the two months of salary
In the middle of a process of liquidation of the Public Company Ferrocarriles Ecuador, Riobamba freight cars, also rails, among other things, were scrapped. While the workers have not received their October salary.
President Lenín Moreno, through Decree 1057, signed the liquidation of Ferrocarriles de Ecuador. This November 14, it was known of the transfer of some cargo wagons from Riobamba to be scrapped, as well as other objects and vehicles, following the guidelines of the Decree, as reported by machinists.
Within this process, in July and August about 280 workers were fired and they denounce that the liquidations are laughable. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, many have accepted these out of necessity.
However, another group has presented a list of requests in the Ministry of Labor so that the liquidations are greater and compensate the work of the dismissed personnel.
The deadline for settlement is at the end of February. By then, according to Marcelo Tapia, general secretary of the Ecuadorian Railways Unified Company Committee, 322 families would be left without their source of income, nationwide, without taking into account the enterprises that were generated along the railway line, that add up to about two thousand families.
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