The dispute at the Port of Montevideo, which had lasted more than four months, ended with an agreement between Terminal Cuenca del Plata (TCP) and the union late Wednesday afternoon.
The breakthrough came after Presidency Secretary Alejandro Sánchez personally contacted representatives of Katoen Natie in Belgium and the terminal’s union leadership.
Until then, formal negotiations over the collective bargaining agreement remained deadlocked on one specific issue: the guaranteed number of monthly workdays for 197 employees. The company proposed a minimum of 20 workdays per month, while the union sought to increase it to 21. The Ministry of Labor had raised the possibility of increasing the minimum to 22 from May.
Sánchez proposed setting the minimum at 21 workdays from January, with no further increase required in May, according to El Observador.
