Alabama total bus stoppage of short and medium arranged by the Automotive Tramway Union (UTA) of this friday, one was added surprise strike of hierarchical employees of the Sarmiento Train. Although the railway force measure has already been lifted, the context allowed traveling on the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) becomes an odyssey.
Throughout this Friday morning, millions of passengers sought alternative ways to move and be able to get to their jobs, studies and commitments. Even the government of the City of Buenos Aires opted to relax some rules in the Buenos Aires territory to facilitate the circulation of people, such as not charging for metered parking of vehicles and making free, until the end of the UTA protest, highway tolls and the service of ecobici.
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Also, in the framework of the protests, a cut of drivers of line 60 was added in the Pan-American highway at the height of the Buenos Aires town of Ingeniero Maschwitzin continuity with the 24-hour collective strike day in the AMBA and which also takes place in the provinces of Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Santa Fe, Formosa and Tucumán.
According to the union that leads roberto fernandezin the districts he mentioned “the breaches in companies of the payments of salary increases and there will be unemployment”.
“Us we understand passengersbut they they have to understand us. We are not doing a stoppage, but a retention of tasks, because we want to collect the salary that we have agreed upon months ago and that unfortunately the businessmen are holding us hostage,” said Fernández, at the same time that he accused “a handful of businessmen” of hold “users and workers hostage”.
However, another of the measures taken by the multiple drawbacks that clinched the union protest was that in the schools the fault is not counted of students unable to attend classes.
The subway was the first alternative for the majority of bus users who stayed on foot, but not all passengers knew about the bus stoppage, and many were surprised by the cut in service at Sarmiento. Among one of the stories that were known, a young man told Clarion Que “since 1 in the morning transported to travel from Liniers” since he was leaving work in a restaurant. “I waited two hours because they did not say anything that there were no trains. I’m going to Moreno,” she said.
Other victims were those who they arrived in the Roca and Miter line trains to the Buenos Aires territory and then they will not be able to combine with the buses. Those who knew about the strike, coordinated with other colleagues from work to go by car or hire a van, thus organizing options to avoid the cut.
The images left by the collective strike
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