A collection truck almost caught fire and unloaded all the garbage on a Buenos Aires avenue in the midst of the conflict with Truckers

In the midst of the conflict between the City Government and the Truckers’ Union, a collection truck almost caught fire and unloaded all the garbage in the middle of Belgrano Avenue. The video quickly went viral on social networks and the head of government, Jorge Macri, demanded that the company remove all the garbage. The video shows the vehicle throwing a mountain of garbage on Belgrano Avenue at 3.400. The images caused outrage, after being interpreted as a union measure to the confrontation with the Buenos Aires Executive. But, according to police sources to Infobae, the personnel of the Ashira company detected a fire inside one of their trucks and therefore proceeded to open it immediately to safeguard the equipment. It was reported that minutes later they approached the site to leave it in good condition after the incident. I want to tell you that I have already demanded that the company remove all the garbage that it scattered and leave everything clean. It is what corresponds and we are going to make him fulfill his duty,” Macri reported through his X account (former Twitter). This morning, the president of CABA notified that this specific situation had already been solved. Conflict between the GCBA and TruckersThe Government of the City of Buenos Aires canceled the bidding process for the towing and hauling service, annulled the pre-award and announced that the City will continue to provide the service for less than half of the price stipulated in that contract. We have no problem with the collection union, so if it is done badly, we blame the companies. There is an issue with the tender for hauling cranes. Truckers squeeze where they think it hurts. We told them that we guaranteed work to the 350 truck drivers, so it is not understandable if they defend the companies because we gave a guarantee of stability to the workers,” said the head of government to Radio La Red. The decision to cancel the pre-award, as reported by the Buenos Aires Government in a statement, was taken because “it was very onerous for the City and tied it to that contract for the next 10 years.” “That pre-award implied an expenditure of 360 million dollars from the public coffers. In addition, an advance of 8 million dollars was stipulated for companies and forced the Government to pay the cost of operation, even if there were no hauls,” said the Executive, who said that the service will continue to provide the service. The internal PRO with Horacio Rodríguez LarretaJorge Macri took aim on Monday against his predecessor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, for irregularities in the bidding processes. According to the head of government, the pre-award occurred on December 7, the same day he took office but with some signatures after that day, so they opened an investigation. A pre-award that occurs on December 7, I took office on December 7. With some signatures made on the 11th, with officials who were no longer officials. This is part of an internal investigation that we are doing,” Macri told LN+. The head of government said that he “believes” that Rodríguez Larreta did “something improper,” but clarified that “that will be defined by an internal investigation.” “Let’s see if he ends up in Justice. If there is a crime, it is something else. If it is administratively clarified that there was a digital signature before and then it was only perfected on paper, what could have happened. Anyway, if it was signed on December 6 or 7 when they were leaving and I assume on the 7th, at least it was discourteous to me,” he said. Regarding the lack of garbage collection, which was linked to the decision of the Buenos Aires government to cancel the pre-award of the cranes and hauls, Macri said: “I don’t know if the companies have a relationship with Moyano. It is striking that just this weekend a mess was made after we communicated to the union, whom we notified on Friday. They do the hauling because they are drivers.” The Buenos Aires government is now seeking to open a negotiation with the union in which it will be offered that the 310 workers of the cranes continue in SBASE or move to the municipal orbit, but always with the agreement of Truckers. Macri’s administration aims to create a unit that depends on the Traffic Directorate to organize the hauling system.

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