Wounded and detained in a protest by UTA drivers in Córdoba

07/13/2020 - 18:50

• Clarín.com
• Society

A protest by urban passenger transport workers in the capital of Córdoba , in the framework of a total stoppage of activities carried out by the union for 13 days, ended on Monday with a confrontation between police and protesters and several detainees.

The workers, gathered in the Unión Tranviarios Automotor (UTA), held an assembly in front of the union building and then mobilized towards the Municipal Palace, but the strong security operation prevented access and clashes broke out between protesters and police.

According to local media, the violence started when the protesters tried to burn garbage containers and the police wanted to prevent it.

Incidents in a march of UTA drivers in the city of Córdoba in the framework of a stoppage of activities. Photo: The Voice.

The secretary general of the local UTA, Carla Esteban, told the local media that seven people were detained by the incidents, which also included bullfights and stones.

The union took responsibility for the workers for what happened and denounced that there were people who did not belong to the UTA in the demonstration.

The leader anticipated that "the strike will continue indefinitely", maintaining that neither in the municipality nor in the four transport companies "there is a will to regularize the debt or resolve the conflict."

He also said that the mayor of the city of Córdoba, Martín Llaryora, is "unduly withholding" the national subsidy funds that he must transfer to the transport companies for the payment of wages.

Incident and detainees in progress of the UTA in the municipality of Córdoba. Photo: The Voice.

"They are owing the June salary and the half bonus, the reimbursement of badly liquidated discounts; we are without social work and without ART (Insurers of Work Risks)," said Esteban.