After five days of carrier strikes, the table olive sector begins to stop its activity. The sector employer, Asemesa, confirms that two of the main factories in Seville where this product is made stop their activity this Friday, and another three will stop their operations on Monday. Between everyone, add 1,200 jobs of the 8,000 that the sector has in total, which concentrates its activity in Andalusia and especially in Seville.
The reason for the interruption: the lock prevents arrivals and departures; namely, lack of supply of olives and it is impossible to remove those that are already packaged for distribution at points of sale. “Although olives are not a perishable product, if you do not have a sufficient quantity of the right size in your warehouse, you cannot continue packaging. That is why some factories stop now, and others can endure working a few more hours, depending on the stocks they have & rdquor ;, explains a spokesman for the business organization, who anticipates a “domino effect & rdquor; in the rest of the factories if the transport stoppage continues.
“The situation is very worrying, already at 6 in the morning this Friday the first closure has taken place and the work of 1,200 people is up in the air. We hope that the authorities will take action, because this is cas a consequence of the pickets and the coercion they exert”, says Antonio de Mora, Secretary General of Asemesa.
Until now, the problems of food shortages that have been registered in the points of sale to the consumer have been punctual and circumscribed above all to the fresh product, because the pressure of the carriers that have stopped their activity has been exerted above all in the first points of the distribution chain: ports, fish markets and markets. In recent hours, there have also been problems in other industries, such as dairy. The Ministry of the Interior has deployed more than 23,000 agents in recent hours to try to prevent coercion and violent incidents against truck drivers who want to work.