In the CGT they look disoriented. The Casa Rosada is making progress with its labor reform and so far showed no will Dialogue with the union headquarters. ““We learned about the draft of the project unofficially, like everyone else.” They count at the top of the Cegetista leadership. It’s the text that began to circulate last Thursday in the benches of La Libertad Avanza of the Senate and the PRO of the MPs and the journalists and union leaders reached.
Immediately a group of CGT lawyers –Martha Pujadas, Federico West Ocampo And Pablo Topet, among other things – began to analyze the project. We are also working on developing one Counterproposal in the event that a negotiation path is opened.
Gerardo Martínezthe head of UOCRA, is a member of the Mayo Council, the body it sponsors Javier Milei to discuss long-term projects.
They say that after the last meeting of this Council, Martínez went to meet with the presidential adviser Santiago Caputo I’m looking for a sign of whether or not the government will go full force on labor reform.
There were also informal contacts between the CGT and the cousins Martin And Eduardo “Lule” Menem and with the Interior Minister, Diego Santilliwhose paths crossed with the brand new Cegetista triumvirate a few days ago Cristian Geronimo. The official message everyone received was more or less similar: that they shouldn’t worry, that it wasn’t an attack against the guilds.
But if they had any doubts, it would be the unions made even more restless When they read the text, it circulates. “The problem is that you never know who has the final decision in the negotiations in the government. Those we spoke to said one thing, but it is not certain that the law depends on them,” he noted. Clarion a leader
What the CGT expects is a Capital challengethe largest since 1984, when the administration of Raul Alfonsin I submitted to Congress a union restructuring project known as the “Mucci Law.” However, this initiative was later approved by MPs rejected by the Senatewhere Peronism had the majority. It was a hard defeat for the radical government and the then Labor Minister Antonio Mucci was dismissed.
At the CGT You bet history repeats itself. According to their estimates, the ruling party would have more leeway in the House of Representatives to secure votes for the reform, but not in the Senate. They reject lawmakers being of Peronist descent They will vote against it, trusting the word given to them days ago by the governors of the United Provinces that they would not support anything that did not have the support of the unions.
As if the saying “Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.” was a motto, the Cegetista leadership begins to analyze what a dispute would look like if La Rosada moves forward unilaterally with its project.
“There will be confrontations if they do not moderate their project. There will be states of alarm, mobilizations, strikes. The MPs who vote for it will have to return to their provinces later.” points to a well-known Cegetista boss.
Another union leader agrees: “If they do not engage in dialogue, we will exhaust all options. First we collect the wills in Congress, then we protest very carefully because we have to weigh the moment, and finally the legal route. They too (through the executive branch) will suffer from attrition.” “Won’t it hurt the government if Vaca Muerta, the ports and the mines stop?”
By the way, the CGT has just resumed relations with the head of the oil tankers union of Río Negro, Neuquén and La Pampa, Marcelo Rucci, where the enormous deposit of unconventional hydrocarbons is located. Rucci had angry with the previous management.
The unions claim that some previously known articles of the text would be stopped by the judiciary if they were sanctioned. ““It violates international treaties, it affects the right to strike, a lot of things that the judiciary will change later.”they emphasize.
Its new leadership will make its debut at the helm of the CGT -Cristian Geronimo, Octavio Arguello, Jorge Sola-, elected last month. The adopted labor reform may set them on fire.
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