The Government is going all out with its policy of clashing with the unions. Omar Maturano, the head of the union who called for the measure of force, assumed the Government would call for mandatory conciliation and that salary negotiations would continue.
He could have dictated conciliation in the railway conflict, but he did not do so. The fight is not about power, it is about economic, political and social power, writes Guillermo Rodríguez Adami.