2024-01-24 02:34:00
On the eve of the first paro general that the government of Javier Miley 44 days following taking office, the trade unionism and the business chambers They expressed opposing positions regarding the need to carry out a measure of force.
The cessation of activities with mobilization that will take place this Wednesday, January 23 was driven by the General Labor Center (CGT) in rejection of the labor reforms contemplated in the mega decree of necessity and urgency (DNU) and the Omnibus law that the ruling party sent to the National Congress.
The CGT call obtained multiple endorsements and endorsements from unions from all over the country that joined the claim. Simultaneously, different entities that bring together companies came out to demonstrate once morest the decision adopted by unionismwhich also received the support of Peronism as a whole.
General strike of the CGT January 24: How will banks and service stations work?
General strike: unions united once morest Milei’s DNU
Despite the closeness he showed Armando Cavalieri with the Government, the Argentine Federation of Commerce and Services Employees (FAECyS) joined the initiative “in favor of commercial employees and all retirees in the country, once morest the excessive measures that the National Government wants to carry out once morest the workers, we mobilize with the slogan: Increase now for retirees.”
At the same time, Cavalieri demanded “a free parity qthat managed to beat inflationthus achieving the well-being of all commercial employees”, in a context of inflation that travels at a speed that ranges between 18% and 20%, according to private estimates.
For its part, the Banking Association of Sergio Palazzo He also adhered to “the fighting plan” established by the CGT. “Nor we are willing to validate an unprecedented adjustment that falls only on the workers, the retirees and that affects the people as a whole,” they explained.
In this sense, they pointed out that the State “must guarantee equality and always protect the weakest, so that their rights are not curtailed” and “one is not on equal terms if no one regulates or guarantees balance in a negotiation between parties, whatever the nature.”
“We consider it to be a avasallament to the National Constitution and endless atrocities that seek to deregulate the economy in the name of freedom, with the sole objective of carrying out a savage adjustment that affects the entire Argentine people for the benefit of a privileged few,” they noted.
Along the same lines, the State Workers Association (ATE), which defined that the 24-hour strike will begin at 0 on Wednesday, and “will cover national, provincial and municipal public organizations.”
“Let Bullrich not get his hopes up because he will not be able to apply any protocol. Tomorrow we are going to be a crowd and we are not going to walk obediently and on the path as the Government wants“warned the Secretary General, Rodolfo Aguiarin radio statements.
The first general strike once morest Milei’s management, minute by minute
At the same time, the union leader assured that “The Administration is going to be completely paralyzed“, not only in the National State, but also in the provinces and municipalities.” “Only minimum guards will be guaranteed in essential services, and in the case of organizations that care for retirees, only emergencies that may arise throughout the day will be addressed,” he added.
In addition, on Wednesday the workers of the Argentine Union of Rural Workers and Stevedores (UATRE)in defense of “rights” and as a sign of repudiation of the DNU and the Omnibus law “which are clearly unconstitutional.”
“As already anticipated by different media, UATRE says ‘No to the Labor Reform’ because the DNU is trying to impose the new government.”irreversibly damages the rights and the benefits that these bring to our rural workers and their families,'” the union noted.
Business chambers once morest the general strike
On the opposite side the Chamber of Commerce and Services (CAC)which questioned the general strike in a statement and objected to the “difference in criteria of the conveners “to the current government compared to the one headed by former president Alberto Fernández”.
“On the eve of the first general strike that will be carried out once morest the management of Javier Milei as President of the Nation, the CAC wants to emphasize the difference in criteria expressed by those sectors that adhere to the protest day, but that They did not hold any demonstrations during the four years in which Alberto Fernández exercised the Executive Power,” they stated.
From the perspective of the authorities, during the management of the Frente de Todos “the growth of poverty and inflation, with its consequent deterioration in purchasing power, were constant” and they stressed that the force measures are carried out “knowing that 56% of citizens supported their proposals at the polls, although these did not predict months of prosperity, but of a costly but necessary macroeconomic readjustment”.
At your turn, the Argentine Confederation of Medium Enterprises (CAME) considered that the CGT plan “will entail a major economic loss for the country“.
“Our SMEs need to work, since without work there is no income. Every month we must face the fixed expenses of our businesses. SMEs are the main generators of registered employment,” said the president of CAME, Alfredo González.
In the general strike of the CGT, the Left will mobilize in an independent column
The stoppage will occur in a context of falling consumption and the SME industry. According to data from the business entity, Retail sales recorded a year-on-year drop of 13.7% in December and the contraction in December was 3.4%.
“We are respectful of the decisions of unionism and the right to strike. We understand and share the prevailing uncertainty and anguish that affects a good part of our population, but We do not believe that a strike is the instrument that will reverse this situation”he added.
The Red Super Argentinosthat one has the Argentine Chamber of Supermarkets (CAS) Yet the Argentine Federation of Supermarkets and Self-Services (FASA)declared its support for the Government’s DNU “in general, and in particular, with regard to labor reform, essential for the normal development of private companies, especially SMEs, undisputed generators of investment and job creators.”
“We support production and work, therefore, beyond respecting the legitimate right of workers to strike, we consider the stoppage of activities called for next January 24 is inopportune. We understand that the way to rebuild salaries (an urgent need) is by producing, investing and generating formal jobs, something totally opposite to what causes a general strike,” they rescued.
They will implement the anti-picket protocol during the CGT strike: it is “extortion to maintain privileges,” said Bullrich
From the Argentine Federation of Freight Motor Transport Business Entities (FADEEAC) argued that “in the current context, calling for a general strike is especially inconvenient by hindering any hint of reactivation of cargo transportation”.
“Our sector is heading towards a recessive situation that we must avoid by all means. Stopping the activity will only deepen the crisis we are experiencing, because the day following no solutions will emerge from that measure, beyond the statistics and interpretations made from the different places that are occupied. For this reason, once once more, we reiterate the value and importance of dialogue as a primary way to build a country with more and better opportunities for all,” reasoned the head of FADEEAC, Roberto Guarnieri.
Finally, the president of the Business Chamber of Urban Developers (CEDU)Damián Tabakman, maintained that “carrying out a strike at this time is a modality that harms production, and adds to the damage that the current situation is causing in our sector, such as the increase in costs in works, the shortage of inputs in the value chain and the complex scenario of deceleration and inflation.
“We respect the legitimacy and the right to make claims in a framework of democratic coexistence, but we believe that at this time it would be important to prioritize other methodologies that avoid further affecting the levels of activity, while the debate takes place in the corresponding spaces,” he concluded. Tabakman.
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