The railway workers of La Fraternidad have been carrying out a 24-hour strike since midnight that has paralyzed freight and passenger train services throughout the country. As a result of the strike at the main train stations in Greater Buenos Aires, long queues at the bus stops were recorded from the first hour of the morning by regular users of the rail service who tried to reach their destinations by this means of transport. work places.
The measure of force was called “in defense of the railway industry and jobs.” The union led by Omar Maturano held the strike on March 21.
In the metropolitan area, the force measure led to an increase in vehicle traffic. The main entrances to the City of Buenos Aires have more traffic than usual and delays are recorded.
The reasons for the strike
“The Fraternity does not hesitate to defend the railway industry and jobs, violated by the judicial decision to suspend services between Buenos Aires and Bahía Blanca due to a derailment. The union organization also ratifies the state of alert and mobilization,” he explained. Maturano.
The head of the railway union maintained in a video and in a press document that the railway industry “is permanently attacked, in this case by the courts,” and added that the union also rejects “the irregularities produced in the phantom purchase of tickets in services of the activity, which exhaust the availabilities and will cover passengers to the motor transport sector”.
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“The railway is being attacked and, proof of this, is what happened during the asphalting of the tracks and in the face of the refusal of some mayors to stop the services in their localities, as is the case in Chascomús, for example,” he said.
The union questions that following the derailment in Olavarría on March 8 that affected 21 people, the Justice has suspended the circulation of the passenger train of the Constitución – Bahía Blanca branch that operates Trenes Argentinos until “the safety of passengers is guaranteed and personal railway.
Maturano also denounced “the conduct of some provincial governments that, violating the law, take over railway territories owned by the Nation and use land for various fines and not to build housing for staff, 60 percent of whom do not have their own home.” “.
Reinforcement of the collective service
Due to the train stoppage that the La Fraternidad union has been carrying out since midnight this Tuesday, the Ministry of Transport ordered reinforcements to the bus lines that make a route similar to that of the Roca, Mitre, Belgrano Norte, Belgrano Sur, Sarmiento railways. , San Martin and Urquiza.
Punctually, from 5 in the morning lines 145, 194, 195, MOQSA company and Tomás Guido reinforced the service in the South zone and lines 60 and 57 did it for the users of the Miter line.