After the agreement with Buenos Aires, the state unions ask the Government to accelerate the joint discussion

Guido Carelli Lynch

09/11/2020 - 11:30

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After the assistance of President Alberto Fernández to the Province, who allowed Governor Axel Kicillof to formalize a proposal to the Buenos Aires Police, the state unions push the start of

that usually serve as a reference to the private and provincial governments.

Cabinet Chief

carrying out negotiations with the two factions of ATE and with UPCN.

The Secretary of Public Employment

calms the anxiety of the unions and lets them know that she will convene them the first days of October: the 8th more precisely, according to the state authorities.

The

Labor Ministry

is the enforcement authority, but does not participate in the conversations.

Meanwhile and without giving details, the coordinating minister's collaborators send alternatives to the Ministry of Economy led by

.

Any movement will also have an impact on the

that the Government will send to Congress next week. 

The joint party expired in May and the talks were interrupted in the midst of the pandemic and while the State faced the IFE and the ATPs for private sector employees.

So far, the Government only authorized at the beginning of the year non-remunerative bonuses in

for workers who earn up to $ 60 thousand.

“We are very aware of the complaints because

with the unions

.

We said that we were going to open in October and that is what we are going to do, ”explain sources from the Executive who diagram the official proposal.

Alberto Fernández in a meeting with Roberto Baradel, in 2019. The SUTEBA leader demands increases in the Province and went through Casa Rosada

In the majority union,

, they hope that the next meeting will take place next week.

Secretary General

participated in

with the rest of the CGT board of directors with the President, but the subject was not touched according to the diners.

In the Casa Rosada they do not rule out that the claim of the Bonaerense, which the Nation resolved with the removal of a co-participation point from the City, may accelerate the claims of the unions.

"If we have the possibility to do it before, we will do it for sure because we believe in the need to discuss wages and working conditions with public employees," they explain in the Cafiero team.

At UPCN they are understanding, but they mark the field.

"The union of course recognizes the difficult situation, but also claims that the state companies have been losing purchasing power for three years.

We have the need to rebuild purchasing power, ”Secretary General Andrés Rodríguez told

.

At the beginning of the week, several state agencies threatened a letter from UPCN addressed to the director of the Public Employment labor sector,

, urging that negotiations be restarted.

The same claim had been sent in each Portfolio to the national ministers.

In ATE, led by

recognize that since 2018 state employees have decreased their purchasing power.

"He who does not cry does not breastfeed", recognize leaders of the union led by the also deputy secretary of the

.

They do not want to specify percentages, but they admit that the Government's proposal should not be below

, the loss of real salary that, they claim, would have recognized in the Executive.

They also request more contributions for essential state workers.

Attentive to the claim of the Bonaerense, all branches of the state unions based in the Province demanded the beginning of the negotiation in a statement distributed this Thursday.

"The deterioration of wages reported in this claim affects all state workers in the Province, so it is urgent to call for continuity in wage negotiations in all sectors of the State - at the provincial and municipal level -, in which an immediate recomposition of assets is guaranteed ”, they affirm.

Suteba, led by Roberto Baradel, accompanies the document.

Hugo Yasky

, the official deputy, general secretary of the CTA of workers and leader of the CTERA teaching union, which is also a reference for the Green and White line of ATE, is more contemplative but the bases are pressing for an official gesture, a detail that explains the subscription of his ally Baradel to the claim of the Buenos Aires unions.

Both stopped by Cafiero's office last week, although they insisted that the issue was not touched upon and focused on the layout of the Economic and Social Council, as reported by the Border site. 

Some important private unions in the Province also took note of the conflict with the Police.

It was expected that at midnight on Friday all the refineries in the Province would be paralyzed and even warned that there could be a

.

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