Coronavirus in Argentina: UOM agrees to cut 14% of net salary and differentiates itself from the rest of the unions

Carlos Galván

04/28/2020 - 17:54

• Clarín.com
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The UOM is the first union to reach a salary cut agreement with a business chamber after the agreement signed this Monday between the UIA and the CGT . The novelty of the agreement that the metalworking union closed on Tuesday afternoon is that workers who do not perform tasks due to the quarantine due to coronavirus will receive 70% of the gross salary, which represents around 86% of the net salary, according to estimates. business sources.

In the agreement signed between the UIA and the CGT it was established that the cut for suspended workers would have a salary floor equivalent to 75% of the net .

In this way, the metalworkers reached an agreement 11 points above the floor of the agreement closed by the Peronist union center.

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That pact was signed by just four leaders from Ceget representing the entire union center. One was the head of the UOM, Antonio Caló .

In one metallurgical company they were "perplexed " by the agreement between the UOM and the Association of Metallurgical Industries (ADIMRA) and the Federation of Industrial Chambers of Home Appliances (FEDEHOGAR).

AFAC, which groups auto parts companies, did not sign the agreement. "The automotive sector has a particular situation which is not consistent with agricultural machinery or boiler manufacturers. Automotive should be negotiated separately , " he told Clarin J ohn Cantarella , CEO of AFAC. "The automotive chain is conditioned by metallurgical activities that have nothing to do with the auto parts reality," he added.

"It looks like shit," they said at a company whose workers are affiliated with the UOM.

The agreement with ADMIRA establishes that although the workers are suspended, "the company takes over the contributions of the union and the social work," said Antonio Caló in the union.

86% of the net salary would be reached because during the suspension the part of the union contribution that corresponds to the worker will be made by his employer.

The UOM must now negotiate with the rest of the employers' chambers.

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