LatinNews Daily Report - 04 July 2012

POLITICS | Pluna workers strike in demand  of info on new partner. On 3 July the union of aeronautical technical workers of Uruguay-organisation of Pluna workers (OTAU-AFP), which groups all 500 Pluna workers – the 160 pilots have their own union - declared a 48-hour strike in demand of information regarding the government’s plans to find a new partner for the state-controlled airline. The strike will last until 6pm local time on 5 July, resulting in the suspension of 70 flights. On 15 June last, the oriental aeronautical society (SAO), the largest shareholder of Pluna with a 75% stake – through Leadgate (67%) and Jazz (33%) – left the company, which is now solely state-owned while the government of President José Mujica finds a new partner through a trusteeship. The OTAU-AFP wants the government to disclose how it is going about finding a new majority shareholder and to comment on the rumour that if the Argentine businessman Juan Carlos López Mena were to fill in the gap left by SAO, 200 jobs would be lost.

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