The Labor reform that the administration has presented to Congress a “modern” proposal that takes into account changes in the world of work “already brought about by reality and”. In a country where more than half of the workforce is black, this is obvious“said this Monday the head of the catering union of Buenos Aires, Dante Camaño, when he expressed his public support for the initiative of the Javier Milei government. In doing so, he distanced himself from the deep rejection from the CGT -of which it is a part- which required one Mobilization for this Thursday in Plaza de Mayo as part of his strategy to block reform.
Camaño, a historic leader who has had a tough confrontation for years with the national gastronomy chief Luis Barrionuevo for the Buenos Aires section of the union, also distinguished himself from his Cegetista colleagues by proposing support for the government’s decision to be included in the reform strong restrictions on the collection of so-called “solidarity contributions”that unions apply to workers, whether members or not, and who feed the funds they manage with millionaires’ funds.
“I completely agree, but as far as membership fees are concerned, those who join voluntarily remain the same because they receive many things from the union. If the government wants to change history, let them change it. Let everyone who wants to join and for the fee they want to pay. You can’t do that in advance,” the leader said, adding: “This is where we have to operate and we all know that because the system is sick, but the problem is whether we operate well or with knives.”
In this sense, he accused the trade unionists of questioning some points of the reform, such as: Vacation distributionby claiming that “there are changes that reality has already produced.” “There used to be 21 or 30 days of vacation and the worker took every day in a row because it was usual. But today people don’t take such long vacations, the most normal thing is to take 5 days or a week. You see this in the union hotels, where 95% of the workers’ accommodation requests are for a week, time itself changes history,” Camaño said in statements made this Monday during the event where he has a new mandate at the helm The Buenos Aires branch of UTHGRA has taken over the leadership of the union.
A similar opinion was expressed in the case of the proposal Reformulation of the working day and creation of the so-called hour bank. “This proposal for the catering industry already exists. The reform has already been carried out, it is carried out by the people, the workers themselves are doing it. And we all accept it, the unions, the entrepreneurs, because it is the natural course of things. Presenting this now as a conflict is stupid,” he explained.
Camaño stressed that labor reform is “something obvious in a country where more than half of the workers are black, where there are millions of unemployed people, where public employment is the majority and there are also black people,” stressing that it is an initiative “necessary given the gravity of the crisis.”
However, he stressed that changes in labor legislation alone would not create employment. “If we think that only labor reform will create new jobs, we are completely wrong. It will improve some problems, but in order for there to be more work, production and business investment must increase, and this does not depend on whether leave is shared or not.”
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