“They are going to make the strike more forceful”: The CGT, the ATE and the unions in the face of the Government’s position of deducting the working day

The Association of State Workers (ATE), together with other unions and the General Confederation of Labor responded to the position communicated in the last few hours by the National Government, which states that the daily wage will be deducted from the workers who adhere to the strike called for January 24 in rejection of the Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU) in force. and the draft Omnibus Law, known as the Law of Bases and Starting Points for the Freedom of Argentines.” The only thing it will achieve is that the strike is more forceful, stronger and the mobilization has much more body,” said the leader of ATE Capital, Daniel Catalano, in statements to Radio with You. For his part, the assistant general secretary of UTE-Ctera Capital, which brings together teachers in Buenos Aires, and of the CTA of the City, Eduardo López, told Télam that positions such as the one taken by the Executive Branch of Javier Milei, “will not be able to prevent any constitutional measure that the workers freely resolve.” “Adorni follows the path of (former Buenos Aires mayor Horacio Rodríguez) Larreta who, with the same threats, tried to deactivate the teachers’ strikes,” he added. You may also be interested in: Caputo: “I have never seen the magnetism that Milei generates”For his part, Héctor Daer, co-head of the CGT along with Carlos Acuña and Pablo Moyano, declared that his intention is that “on the 24th there will be an orderly act, although the march will be carried out in the same way as the one on December 27 towards the Courts.” There is a very large universe that felt affected by these issues that are dealt with in Congress,” he said, while considering that measures such as the strike will generate “the visibility of trade union organizations and scientists, personalities of culture, sports and tenants.” Daer defined that the mobilization “will be very large and there will be no inconveniences,” and recommended that the government “remain calm and not spend money on astronomical figures on supposed costs in operations because the workers and the people know how to take care of themselves.” There will be public transport on the day of the strike until 7 p.m.For its part, the Argentine Confederation of Transport Workers (CATT) guaranteed the circulation of public transport until 7 p.m., when they will join the measure until midnight. They declared that this measure is taken “with the spirit set on the task of facilitating the concentration and deconcentration of all those who wish to participate and accompany the call”. “Workers’ rights are not negotiable,” they concluded.

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