translated from Spanish: President of the CUT and minimum wage: “Will make it possible to prevent the imposition of a proposal”

the President of the single Confederation of workers (CUT), Bárbara Figueroa, referred to the approved minimum wage proposal p “or the committees of finance and labour, which sees an increase of $10 billion in the amount from this month and to reach $300 billion in March 2019.” Yesterday was evidence that the Government never wanted nor had a willingness to negotiate. He always waited to get to Parliament to propose a different. “He insists that more efforts cannot be made because it will affect employment and I want to say that companies have been closed and none of them has done so by offers salariares estratofericas”, told radio Universo.La leader said “there was bad faith when you sit on to negotiate and now when they get this agreement, which is worse than what was presented to us, frankly went back. We need that you legislating, I imagine that passing the Senate debate is again to reopen. We will make it possible to prevent the imposition of a proposal”, he warned. Figueroa said that “the DC all that did was to advance the Government’s proposal.” I don’t know who asked him to change the date of negotiation because that must be done between the Government and the parties. What is happening today with the proposal is that it tries to sell us a nice figure and bargaining is leaving tied at 30 months and with an increase of not more than $15 billion. If the DC going to say they are going to negotiate more than workers, I think that they are wrong.” The CUT President said that “we can not approve a proposal that tie a negotiating process because in this way we consolidate the gap between the cost of real life and the salary. That hurt the country and prevents us to have better conditions.”

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