2024-01-17 21:11:09
The Automotive Tram Union (UTA) announced that on the day of the CGT general strike – Wednesday, January 24 – the national bus service will operate normally until 7 p.m., when they will adhere to the force measure until midnight.
Through a statement signed by the union’s general secretary, Roberto Fernández, the transport union stated that “it will comply with normal services” and then stop transiting throughout the country.
“The rights of workers are not negotiated,” they closed the letter a week before the demonstration, called 18 days before the inauguration of the Government of Javier Milei in rejection of the series of measures taken by the authorities that affect the interests of workers. unionists.
The measure of extreme force was taken after the Confederal Central Committee met at the end of December at the historic headquarters on Azopardo Street. It was carried out after the President announced the decree of necessity and urgency to deregulate the economy, which was rejected by the union sectors as well as the Omnibus Law project that is being debated in deputies.
Representatives from all unions participated in the meeting, from the most dialogue-oriented to the most oppositional. And at the end the decision adopted was presented: a national strike with mobilization for next January 24 that will begin at 12 noon and end at midnight.
Last Wednesday, the plenary session of regional CGT delegations ratified the march and gave “strong and unanimous support to the strategy and action” of the Cegetista leadership, which represented support for the 12-hour strike, which, as resolved , will be replicated in each of the provinces with similar protests.
During the meeting, “the concern and rejection of those aspects of the so-called Omnibus Law that go against the sovereignty of the country, labor rights, the right to free expression and protest, the Argentine union model and health and social benefits were also expressed. “provisional”.
In addition, the “repudiation of the criminalization of social protest as a repressive method of an economic adjustment plan of the current government” was expressed and a warning was given to those who negotiate the DNU and the laws with the Casa Rosada from the governorates and the benches. legislative: “Dialogue and consensus is a tool of politics, but any of these instances cannot be done behind the backs of working people. And even more so those representatives who come from the national and popular field.”
In this sense, in the face of the strike, the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, reiterated this Tuesday the authorization of line 134 so that any citizen can report threats or pressure from picketer leaders who seek to pressure them into attending the mobilization.
It was through a statement where the government official of Javier Milei asked that the tool be taken into account and that those who are affected by any type of extortion before next January 24, leave it settled.
“If you are a businessman, merchant or independent worker; if you are a carrier, employed in a dependency relationship or collect a plan; If you are an Argentine who fights every day to get ahead and they extort or pressure you so that on January 24 you go on strike, defend your rights by making a complaint to 134. Don’t be afraid!″ reads the text published by the person in charge of the Security portfolio.
In the same message, remember that this is an anonymous and free line. His authorization had been announced by the Minister of Human Capital of the Nation, Sandra Pettovello, days before December 20, when picketers called for the first march against the Government.
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