Lácteos Verónica workers maintain a camp in front of the Lehmann plant, in Santa Fe, after accumulating eight months without receiving their salaries and beginning to receive layoffs. The protest brings together two stages of the conflict in one place: a labor debt that extends from December 2025 and a personnel reduction that began during July 2026.
Non-payment preceded terminations. Those who remained linked to the factory went through month after month without receiving the income corresponding to their work, until the crisis added the formal loss of jobs. This sequence aggravates the economic situation of families, because the dismissal does not replace or cancel previous wages that remain unpaid.
The communications received in July incorporated another point of dispute: compensation was calculated at 50%. The cut in the amount leaves open the discussion about the way in which the company intends to terminate each employment relationship. For those affected, the exit requires resolving both the compensation for the dismissal and the unpaid salaries since December, different obligations that must be identified and canceled separately.
The camp transforms that individual claim into a collective action visible at the doors of the establishment. Workers maintain a presence in front of the plant to obtain a response about payments and continuity, instead of simply receiving isolated communications. The measure also preserves a meeting point between those who still have an employment relationship and those who began to be laid off.
The situation does not amount to a reported definitive closure of the factory. What is confirmed is the extension of the salary debt, the beginning of layoffs in July and compensation calculated at 50%. Public details are still missing on the total number of people reached, the schedule to pay the eight months owed and the final scope of the reduction in Lehmann's workforce.
The next concrete result will have to answer these three unknowns: how many positions will be eliminated, how previous salaries will be regularized and under what criteria compensation will be set. As long as there is no solution that covers all three points, the camp will continue to express an open conflict. The plant is plagued by non-payments and layoffs, but its total closure was not announced in the available information.
