The Automotive Tramway Union (UTA) announced a collective strike for 48 hours for this Tuesday and Wednesday. The measure of force will affect the service passenger transport in the short and medium distance tours of the inside the country. Hours following the announcement of the measure, the national government issued the mandatory conciliation and called a meeting for next Thursday. However, from the UTA they have not yet discharged the transport strike.
What lines and routes are affected in Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Rosario
The protest, which in principle will begin at 00:00 on Tuesday and will last throughout Wednesday, affects the services of short and medium distance from the interior of the country. The exception it will be in those lines that circulate between the City of Buenos Aires and the Province (the AMBA). How will the strike impact the province of Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Rosario.
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Buenos Aires province
The companies that cover routes in the interior of Buenos Aires will fold to the extent of force. But there will be groups in the Conurbano (AMBA).
The companies that provide the urban service of Córdoba Capital and also the companies that cover short and medium distance routes in the interior provincial.
The force measure will cover the lines of the companies Movi, Rosario Bus and El Cacique. The measure will also impact the services that connect the city with the metropolitan area.
What does the UTA claim?
The force measure was announced last Thursday, before the lack of salary agreement in the framework of parity of the sector and for the interior of the country.
This was explained by the head of the UTA, Roberto Fernández, who stated that “we have exhausted all efforts necessary in order to achieve the wage increase for workers of passenger transport inside the country“. And he denounced that the provincial governments “Not only have they abandoned all areas of joint negotiation, but unaware of the repeated invitations to participate in the salary discussion“.
On April 8, the UTA ceA joint agreement was reached for short- and medium-distance drivers in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA), with a 50% increase, staggered, that will take the basic salary to 150 thousand pesos from August. In addition to the non-remunerative payment of 43 thousand pesos, in four installments.
The union asks that equalize the wages paid in the interior of the country with those who receive for the same work those who provide services in AMBA.
The UTA statement
Then the full statement of UTA INTERIOR, signed by Roberto Fernández:
“We inform the Workers, the Authorities and the public opinion in general, that we have exhausted all the necessary steps to achieve a salary increase for passenger transport workers in the interior of the country.
We want to express that the National state It has been highly assisting a transport system that is the exclusive responsibility of provincial governmentswho have not only abandoned all areas of joint negotiation, but are also unaware of the repeated invitations to participate in the salary discussion.
The authorities of the Federal Transportation Committee their necessary participation, commitment and contributions, for a system of which they are nothing less than the sole and first holders, despite which, they have disregarded, without assuming their role, which is why we hold them responsible for all the consequences derived from the union action measures to be arranged.
Under the rule of “equal remuneration for equal work” we are not going to allow salaries below inflation, nor lower salaries in the interior, than those of the so-called Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires.
That is why we have resolved a stoppage of activities for 48 hours for all Short and Medium Distance Passenger Transport Workers in the Interior of the Country, with mobilization to the provincial governments, starting at 00 hours next Tuesday 26.”