2024-02-13 23:20:00
The 48-hour municipal strike begins in Rosario: strong negotiations to unblock it
This Wednesday the municipality and the union will meet once more, following a day of discussions. The Municipality is seeking an agreement to avoid it.
Municipal authorities and leaders of the sector’s union in Rosario will meet once more this Wednesday to see if the conflict that led the union to establish a 48-hour strike for this Wednesday and Thursday can be resolved. After vigorous negotiations, the parties agreed to a new meeting, and at the close of this edition they recognized that Wednesday’s day starts with a measure of force.
Last Friday, the Rosario Municipal Workers Union announced a strike for this February 14 and 15 in demand for salary improvements, and above all in rejection of the 14 percent increase to match the 2023 parity, something that the union does not accept. But on the same Friday followingnoon, the Ministry of Labor of the province ordered mandatory conciliation. It did so through resolution 61/24, which called for a hearing between the parties this Wednesday, at 8:30, at Ovidio Lagos 599. The ministerial resolution bears the signature of Iván Ludueña, director of the Rosario Regional of the ministry.
From the union, however, they warned that they did not receive said communication and They ratified the strike. Everything seemed subject to the news that might arise this Tuesday a meeting between Antonio Ratner, head of the union, and mayor Pablo Javkin. After a whole day of phones being turned off, the parties finally did not reach an agreement and recognized that this Wednesday starts with a measure of force. The intention of the municipality is reach an agreement and get the strike liftedbut did not provide information regarding what the counteroffer is to achieve that goal.
Ratner expressed his surprise at the measure issued by the Ministry of Labor of the province of Santa Fe and pointed out that they were not officially notified regarding it. The leader questioned the application of mandatory conciliation, arguing that “the State uses its tools to discuss with workers.”
The union leader highlighted that “conciliation is usually applied in situations that involve the suspension of essential services, such as health and hospital services, the provision of drinking water, electricity service and air traffic.” And he assured that “there was never a single complaint that a minimum guard was suspended.” In addition, he stressed that they expected to be summoned by the Municipality to continue with salary negotiations and expressed his discontent because “we were working. The mandatory conciliation is to return the situation to the previous state. When it was dictated we were not on strike.”
“It is a collective attitude of Rosario, Santa Fe, Rafaela and 90 municipalities and communes demanding a salary improvement. This has been going on since the end of December, when we saw that We closed the year with a 140 percent increase once morest 211 percent inflation. “We were seeing if within the framework of a negotiation we might close an agreement, but the ministry called for conciliation.”
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He also said that they were in talks with Mayor Javkin and had agreed to meet on Tuesday to seek a rapprochement in the negotiations. Ratner considered mandatory conciliation “unnecessary” if there is dialogue, and criticized the “lack of attention to the issue of salary increases.”
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