Azomures faces poor results and strike action

Azomures’s problems seem to be never-ending. After witnessing an 85% drop in its nine-month profits in euros, the company is now facing the threat of a general strike on November 17. The strike was postponed by one week, which Maria Dandarau, leader of the “Alternativa 2000” (Alternative 2000) union of Azomures, said shows the employer that union members are willing to sit down and negotiate. Dandarau says union members had taken this long to go on strike in order to show that the statements by the employer, in which it says wage increases would not be possible due to forecasted increases in the price of methane gas, were ungrounded. Azomures made 1.7 million euros in net profits in the first nine months of the year, down 85%. And while revenues stayed relatively constant, expenses rose by 10% in euros, mainly due to increases in the cost of raw materials, especially methane gas. ZF