CNT-IWA Almería Opens Conflict with CASI Agricultural Cooperative

With the entry of CASI's new chairman of the board, José María Andújar Andújar, a layoff campaign has started against the non-standard workers. 

CASI's chairman is trying to get rid of his regular non-standard workers with this change of policy, since they have recently acquired labor rights, to build a new staff of temporary workers.

This restructuring kicked off with the firing of six workers. CASI alleges that it "has no activity," an unsustainable claim seeing as how new temps are continually being added to the staff and doing overtime to boot. 

The workers are also receiving severance checks far larger than the salary they would usually see for the whole campaing. This money comes from the profits of the farms associated with CASI and subsidies (€3,447,150, almost 2% of the previous year's turnover) that the Government of Andalusia contributes to the cooperative to help improve farm land, the environment, etc.

CNT-IWA Almería has started a series of mobilizations compatible with the conflict's demands and call for the reinstatement of the workers who were fired.