The national government, through the Ministry of Labor, will request the unconstitutionality of the articles of the new Constitution approved in the province of Jujuy in which social protest is sanctioned and restricted.
This was anticipated by Minister Kelly Olmos, who specified that the portfolio she leads “issued a document for the Jujuy government to review the legislation on institutional labor rights, which seek to bring to the criminal level what are absolutely institutionalized labor rights in Argentina ” .
With the votes of the ruling party of Juntos por el Cambio and the justicialist opposition, on Wednesday night a partial reform of the Constitution of Jujuy was voted on, in which the prohibition of roadblocks in the context of protests is ratified, as well as the occupation of public buildings in the midst of social and trade union claims.
In this context, social, political, union, human rights organizations and native peoples of Jujuy came together this Friday in a massive protest march that was coupled with the plan of struggle that the province’s teachers have been maintaining for ten days.
Governor Gerardo Morales, in his role as president of the Constituent Convention, defended the change by maintaining that it is about the incorporation and expansion of rights. He also said that the new Constitution introduces provisions that echo the profound social, economic and political changes that have taken place since 1986, the year in which the reformed regulations came into force.
