Chamber II of the San Isidro Criminal Appeals and Guarantees Court suspended the eviction of the FATE plant, occupied by a group of laid-off employees for more than seven months, a measure that the same judicial body had ordered on September 17, when it granted a cassation appeal filed by the lawyers of the employees and of the Single Union of Argentine Tire Workers (Sutna). Judges Juan Eduardo Stepaniuc, Leonardo Pitlevnik and Luis Cayuela resolved to grant the cassation appeal with "suspensive effect," which halted the eviction order, and to send the case files to the Criminal Cassation Court of the Province of Buenos Aires, so that that body can make a ruling. Among other points, the judicial decision was based on case law such as that which states that the Court considers "that the appeal is admissible when the matter exceeds the interest of the parties (Fallos: 328:3638), which could thus be considered in this case, to the extent that the appellant's challenge concerns a direct action measure in the framework of a labor conflict affecting no small number of workers," reads the resolution signed yesterday by the chamber judges. Alejandro Crespo, secretary general of SutnaTadeo BourbonEver since the eviction was announced, the Sutna union, led by Alejandro Crespo (Workers' Party), raised the alarm at the FATE plant, located in the San Fernando district, but the measure to vacate the factory was not carried out. This Wednesday, the tire workers' union marched to National Labor Court No. 17, in downtown Buenos Aires, to demand payment of overdue fortnightly wages, corresponding to the months that FATE, owned by Javier Madanes Quintanilla, has been closed. The union demands that Judge "Liliana Rodríguez Fernández stop intentionally withholding the money that corresponds to each worker in struggle, constituting a violent economic pressure action against the families of the FATE comrades." The judge received a delegation from the union. "We do not understand [the ruling] from a legal standpoint or the technicalities, because no technicality would have been worth anything if there had not been that enormous reaction starting that Thursday [when the eviction was ordered], making the whole country talk about what was going to happen at FATE and about the price that would be paid if a single comrade were touched," Crespo said outside the courthouse. "Here we do not have a court, but rather a cash box that is withholding nine fortnightly wages for a large number of comrades, and six for the rest, which we want to be in the pockets of the workers' families," he said about Wednesday's demand. Labor conflictProvince of Buenos AiresJobs