Agreement with the IMF, labor reform and Milei: the axes of the CGT for the act for International Labor Day

While social organizations of the ruling party and the left carry out various acts of concentration for the International work day This Monday, May 1, the CGT He chose to perform his separate act tomorrow, Tuesday, May 2, at the Defensores de Belgrano stadium, with the motto “We are on time“.

The CGT will urge to reach “a great political, economic and social consensus”, based on a new document that will be released in the next few hours, giving support for the renegotiation of the agreement with the IMF and claiming to fix 10 state policies to get the country out of the crisis.

Also, as you may have learned PROFILEthe workers union will emphasize its communication in a warning for the growth of the liberal spectrum around Javier Miley: “Discontent is fertile ground for the emergence of anti-establishment emerging, who intend to capitalize it putting at risk the validity of a full democratic system”. It is expected that there will be about 20 thousand people.

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It is no coincidence that I touch on that subject in this instance, since the vice president Cristina Kirchner He just gave a “master class” last week on the economic plans of the liberal proposal, such as the “dollarizationBased on this, political analysts consider that it is a strategy of the Frente de Todos to “get Milei into the ring” to steal votes from JxC, today the political force with the most intention to vote according to the polls.

The event began at 2:00 p.m. and the document states that Argentine society is going through a complex economic and social crisis and instantly reaches “a great political, economic, and social consensus” that promotes “development, production, and work as instruments towards a horizon of growth with social justice”.

“Inflation and poverty rates should lead the needs for the adoption of urgent measures and actions“, they remark in the text.

The CGT will meet on May 1, but 24 hours later

Meanwhile, the Minister of Economy, sergio masaHe will not participate in the call because he plans to accompany the president Alberto Fernandez on their trip to Brazil where they are going to meet with the Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvaaccording to information from sources close to the minister.

In the document prepared by Gerardo Martinez, Secretary of International Relations of the CGT and head of the UOCRA, the CGT also recognized the possibility of a labor reform, taking into account that it is part of the plans of Together for Change if it wins the elections.

For the union leadership, the debate on the subject should be done “in a modern and intelligent way” and admit for the first time the discussion of the reduction of the working day as a way to stimulate employment.

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