07/08/2021 10:59
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 07/08/2021 11:10
A new day of marches and protests
complicates the traffic in downtown Buenos Aires
.
Different social organizations cut 9 de Julio Avenue and partially cut the Metrobus.
The Metrobus from north to south is closed and the car lanes are also obstructed, so
traffic is diverted by Avenida San Juan.
It is a “
national day of struggle of the picket unit
.
”
The protesters' claim reads: “With a minimum wage below the poverty basket, the adjustment continues.
Not to the casualties of promoting work! ”.
"We took to the streets again to demand responses from a government that promised to change the Macrista disaster but for almost 2 years it continues with the adjustment policies," they expressed and advanced that they will march "from 12 noon in Independence and July 9 so that no worker has an income below the basic basket ".
The claim is backed by social organizations and left-wing parties such as the Polo Obrero, MTR, Barrios de Pie, MST, El Bloque Piquetero Nacional, FOL, among others.
Social organizations claim after the announcement of the Minister of Labor, Claudio Moroni, on the advancement of the increase in the minimum living and mobile wage, "which was agreed by the bureaucracy of the unions, the government and the employers, just two months ago."
“It is the late recognition of the poor wages of millions of workers, retirees and social programs of precarious employment, who survive with a poor income, 24 thousand pesos today and with half that amount from social programs, it is say 12 thousand per month ”, they highlighted.
They also recalled that in April, they already mobilized in front of the call of the Minimum, Vital and Mobile Salary Council, which agreed to a "miserable increase of 35% in 7 comfortable installments, in the midst of galloping inflation, which does not stop and accumulate 45% year-on-year inflation ”, they explained.
They analyzed that this advance of the increase is "more by electoral calculation than by an understanding of the social drama" but that "it is late and is totally insufficient".
"It cannot be that the income of a worker and that of a retired person are below the basket of indigence," the social organizations insisted in their official statement.
They consider that "no worker should earn less than the basic basket, today $ 65,000" but that "for that, work should be prioritized and not financial speculation and the payment of foreign debt."
They called for factories to be opened to "develop a public works plan to build housing and urbanization of neighborhoods" for workers that would "allow industrial development to lift the country out of the stagnation that plunged us into poverty decades ago."
"There are plenty of reasons to mobilize," they concluded.
News in development.
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