2023-06-21 09:53:00
The Automotive Tramway Union (UTA) announced that he will carry out a 48 hour bus strike this week in the interior of the country if an agreement is not reached to obtain a salary increase. The measure of force would be carried out on Thursday and Friday.
The union already carried out a strike last Tuesday following the negotiations did not come to fruition on Monday. On Wednesday there was a new hearing at the Ministry of Labor, where the UTA and the Argentine Federation of Automotive Passenger Transport (Fatap) They did not approach positions for the salary increase of the drivers inside.
“We are not going to observe paralyzed the least realization of services and the precariousness of the working conditions that they intend to impose on us, nor the reduction of sources of work, nor lose in working conditions and much less allow the salary reduction due to the delay in reaching an agreement in a highly inflationary economy like the one we are going through,” the UTA said in a statement.
“The authorities ignore their obligations in terms of transport without taking into account the damage they cause to the nine million passengers that we move daily due to the lack of services, ignoring the risk they generate for the thirty-five thousand sources of work and the salaries that are the support of our families”, they pointed out.
The next Wednesday, at 4:00 p.m., a new hearing will be held to try to reach an agreement and avoid a collective strike. If this does not happen, millions of passengers will not be able to access the transport service.
From Vía Bariloche they assured that in Neuquén the service is guaranteed following the meeting held and the minutes signed with the union in the province.
Argentine News Agency
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