The General Confederation of Labor (CGT) published a statement yesterday in which it rejected the electoral proposals “that put at risk the fundamental structure of labor, social and social security rights” of the candidates José Luis Espert, Patricia Bullrich and Javier Milei. The three opposition leaders were quick to reject the letter because “they know that their privileges are running out with me.”
At least in those terms was the response of the PRO candidate and former president of that party, who shared the statement from the workers’ union on Twitter. “They attack because they know that their privileges are running out with me. It’s the only thing they’ve really stood up for decades,” she wrote.
The one who also did not want to ignore the document in which The CGT described the electoral and political proposals as “retrograde and provocative” It was Milei. The national deputy and candidate for La Libertad Avanza also used the social network Twitter to respond.
The CGT described the proposals of Bullrich, Milei and Espert as “retrograde and provocative”
“This is how the squeeze and extortion machine works in Argentina, but know something. Unlike the lukewarm doves of Cambiemos, we are not afraid of them. With us the joke of the thieves trade unionists ends”, she said, including a criticism of the other sector of the opposition.
This Thursday, the labor union published a statement “in defense of Social Security, Labor Rights and the Social Rights of all Argentine workers. There it questioned those who “Shielded in false promises of modernization, they present old recipes that have already failed.”
The one who placed the greatest emphasis on his response was the deputy from Advance Freedom.
Espert transmitted three long paragraphs to maintain that his space “wants to end the black work that affects half of the workers (8M) where they are all poor and get out of poverty that already affects those who are blank“.
He also added that “we must end the figure of dismissal without just causethat severance pay ceases to be in the heads of employers so that it is paid with the surplus of the family allowance system, that collective bargaining is by company and that there is union democracy ending with the single union”.
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He also added that the contributions of workers to unions “is not only -really- voluntary, but also employers stop being jointly and severally responsible for them toothat the general secretaries of the unions last in their positions the same as the President of the Nation instead of a lifetime like today, that trade unionists are prohibited from carrying out any task other than defending the rights of workers, that they determine absurd discounts on workers’ wages such as ‘burial insurance’, etc”.
next, Espert regretted that the CGT rejects the proposals “that are for the good of a working class hungry for labor laws that the CGT does not want to change”. , symbol of dialogue”.
“In any case, if in the upcoming elections I am elected President of the Nation, the labor reform above will be discussed where appropriate, the National Congress. If the CGT wants to participate in the dialogue, welcome and if not, too. We must end the privileges of so-called trade unionists to give workers more rights.”
“Faced with this type of provocative and retrograde proposals, which turn on an alarm light on the democratic and peaceful coexistence of our community, executed by those who —shielded in false pro|eses of modernization— present old recipes already failed“, highlights the text.
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In addition, the CGT assured that It is not “willing to dialogue with those who promote these proposals” and reaffirmed that the initiatives proposed by the presidents “collide head-on with our iron determination to defend work as an essential social value for development.”
In the act for Labor Day, the triumvirus asked for a political agreement and the reduction of working hours, in addition to supporting the renegotiation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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