2024-01-08 11:08:38
The drivers grouped in UTA maintain for the third consecutive day the strike of urban passenger transport in Bariloche before the breach of the company Mi Bus of the payment of salaries corresponding to December and the second installment of the bonus.
The force measure began in the early hours of Saturday and was defined for an indefinite period until the company cancels the payments.
Today the UTA and Mi Bus will have a meeting to bring closer positions and the drivers are waiting for a concrete payment proposal from the municipal service concessionaire.
On Friday, when the conflict worsened and UTA decided to start the strike, It was estimated that 50% of December salaries might be deposited in the workers’ salary accounts just today. Monday.
He Unemployment affects thousands of regular urban transport users who were forced this weekend to appeal to the solidarity of drivers or spend on taxis and remises to get to their jobs and homes. Also Tourists were affected and many, without knowing the situation, gathered at bus stops. for a long time waiting for the service that has not worked since midnight on Saturday.
In mid-December, Mayor Walter Cortés reported that national transportation subsidies for October, November and December were owed, a liability that amounted to 200 million pesos.
Cortés said on repeated occasions that the transportation problem is one of the most pressing issues in the city and went so far as to propose releasing the service with the entry of transfers and other types of vehicles that make point-to-point trips. For now, no measures have been implemented.
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