“The situation is worrying and threatening. We lost more than 2,000 jobs between February and July, and if we add indirect and informal jobs, we’d have around 5,000 people,” the union’s president, Daniel Dardano, lamented.

He announced that the union will hold a partial strike next Tuesday, accompanied by a rally in this capital.

In recent months, several foreign companies have closed their plants in Uruguay.

The glue manufacturer Fenedur announced a few days ago that it will move its production to Argentina.

It is not the only company leaving. This month, the American communications company Verizon ceased operations, leaving 265 employees unemployed.

Last January, 1,500 workers were laid off by the Japanese auto parts supplier Yazaki, which closed its two plants in Uruguay and relocated them to Argentina and Paraguay.

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