Since most of the employees live in the capital city or nearby towns, they commute to the factory by train, bus or car. Between alfajores and other cookies, the factory, which employed around 120 people in 2018, has a production capacity of 1.6 million daily units. La Nirva factory is a three-stories-tall, half-a-block-wide behemoth on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. They did not yet realize the many twists and turns their collective journey was about to take. While most of the country hunkered down indoors to stay safe from the virus, these workers were camping out in a last-ditch effort to demand what was due to them. Now, in May 2020, as the coronavirus crept into the country, a strict nationwide lockdown was underway.
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It had been months since they’d received a full paycheck. But lately, they were struggling to put food on the table. Many had been with the company for more than a decade. Roughly 80 percent of the workers at the factory were women, and most were the main providers for their families. None of them had ever done anything like this before, but the situation was critical. And the laborers who’d spent much of their lives making these cookies were not happy.
But for more than five months now, the Grandote had disappeared from the market. They were camping outside of La Nirva factory, where they’d all worked long hours for years, each playing their own small part in producing the Grandote alfajor, or “Big One,” a gargantuan chocolate-coated caramel cookie sandwich, and arguably the most popular confection in Argentina. They were frightened and cold, but this is what they’d voted to do. It was a rainy night, and the striking workers took refuge wherever they could - some huddled under a small canopy tent others beneath beach umbrellas. The alfajor cookie being assembled at La Nirva factory in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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