Argentina’s leading poultry companies will find themselves in a very dramatic crisis at the end of 2025. suffered commercially and economically, Three Stream Farm We are continuing to adjust our business. plans to push for the closure of the super-fridges under its control operated in Concepción del Uruguay.Entre Rios concentrates its activities in a similar location in La China. The company also All-out strike due to unpaid wages of employees. In the conflict scenario that Granja Tres Arroyos is experiencing, the Food Industry Workers’ Union (STIA) has also become one of the protagonists of the situation. As for the poultry company, its owner is said to be in talks to sell the company to US capital.
Entre Ríos sources said this week that enforcement action had been taken against Granja Tres Arroyos workers for non-compliance with salary commitments. Specifically, it was shown that the company had not yet paid the pending second installment.
“Faced with this situation, the food union has confirmed that it will file a formal complaint with Labor Secretary Entre Ríos.The union calls for the organization to intervene to demand compliance with the commitments undertaken by the company and the companies.” Guarantee the recovery of unpaid amounts” said a voice similar to STIA.
“Employees have begun organizing internal meetings to assess future steps,” they added. The state of Entre Ríos claims that if the poultry company continues to fail to comply with workers’ demands, the dispute at the Granja Tres Arroyos factory “could escalate and affect other factories in the group, where tensions have also been noted due to salary delays.”
In connection with the closure of super refrigerators, Sergio Weleda, general secretary of the state’s Meat Union, said that employees of these facilities “They start working at La China factory It’s from the same company. ”
The closure of a super business occurs when employees are on a permanent board status as a result of non-payment of salaries.
“We are concerned about not being paid by Super SA in Granja Tres Arroyos. The workers held an hour-long meeting to wait for news. Only 20% of people have gathered in two weeks.. Many employees were unable to pay their bills,” the union leader stressed.
Interest in the American capital and Granja Tres Arroyos
Parallel to this situation, there are increasing versions in which poultry companies could fall into the hands of American capital.
A source close to the company points out that the possibility of proceeding with the move “means upgrading equipment and installing new machinery.” Will be part of industrial modernization plan“However, of course, operating with these characteristics would mean a wave of layoffs.
“The sale of Granja Tres Arroyos to a foreign company will be a solution to the financial problems that have plagued the group for several months. Insiders have suggested that foreign investment could be the key to resolving pending financial commitments and starting the modernization process,” Entre Ríos media claims.
The district even goes so far as to say that “delays in salary payments may be part of a corporate strategy to encourage voluntary retirement and facilitate personnel adjustments instead of facing mass protests against the backdrop of the country’s economic and political crisis.”
The identity of companies that may remain in Granja Tres Arroyos in the meat sector They have Tyson Foods as their main candidate.. This is a North American company that has already controlled 34% of the Argentine poultry company’s shares since November 2022.
Tyson Foods has owned Cobb, a poultry genetics supplier key to the production of “broiler” chickens, for decades. Therefore, the historical relationship with Granja Tres Arroyos is maintained.
Tres Arroyos plantations and the worsening crisis
So far this year, the company has Over 80 layoffs were mademainly concentrated in the poultry company’s facilities in Entre Ríos, La China, Concepción del Uruguay.
Last December, Granja Torres Arroyos requested a Crisis Prevention Procedure (PPC) from the Ministry of Labor. Within the same framework, the company expected to reduce its workforce by up to 700 people and also apply salary cuts through the elimination of additional employees.
In July of this year, the company in question was a major Argentine poultry company considering an eight-factory base. They slaughter up to 700,000 chickens a daytold employees they were facing complications in paying half of their bonuses.
Sources involved in the poultry sector say that the company is facing difficulties due to the crisis situation, especially due to the complex situation experienced by the consumption and export sectors in the first half of this year.
The relevance of companies in the niche sector of poultry production is key: in effect 20% of products produced in Argentina come from the company’s factories And until the beginning of 2025, the poultry company was exporting 35% of everything it produced.
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