Ignacio Ortelli
02/10/2021 21:41
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 02/10/2021 9:43 PM
"In the first half it was great for us
."
As if it were a soccer match, a senior government official present at the meeting at the Bicentennial Museum thus defined the synergy they achieved with the unions, which, due to inflation, aimed - before and after the summit - against "the price makers ”;
and by elevation he hinted that
a more complex scenario with businessmen awaits
this Thursday
.
Although according to all the sources consulted there were no exaggerated displays of affection, and there was even almost no margin for the usual bilateral rounds that promote these meetings because as soon as the Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero, and the Minister of Labor, Claudio Moroni, came down the meeting, the balance exceeded the expectations of the Government.
"
They showed good intentions, no one took their feet off the plate,
" summed up another official interlocutor, noting that there were no fouls or last-minute plays.
But in the balance made by the Government, not only the presence of the bulk of trade union leaders was weighed, who managed to bring everyone together at the same table despite the inmates.
The skill shown by several of the leaders to point out inflation to businessmen and the countryside was also celebrated in Balcarce 50. "
The responsibility lies with those who form the prices and set the value chain,"
was the line marked by the head of the CGT, Héctor Daer;
and the one followed by those who faced the microphones.
Including the trucker Hugo Moyano, who plays outside the central dome and asked the businessmen to "open their hearts."
The circle was completed by the ultra-Kirchnerist teacher Hugo Yasky, from the Workers' CTA, who went further and directly asked for measures to prevent businessmen from “taking over the rise in wages”.
Nor was there, in this regard, a union crack.
Thus, the unions did what the Government, minutes before the appointment that President Alberto Fernández had with the Liaison Board, and in the previous "second half" this Thursday could not do.
"It would have been strange if we invited and continued hitting," reasoned a voice from the Cabinet that speaks with these actors.
This premise perhaps explains the analysis made by the Minister of Economy, Martín Guzmán, who attributed inflation to macroeconomic conditions;
and Alberto F.'s turn with the agricultural authorities, after having warned the weekend of the possibility of raising withholdings.
That role in which the union priests (car?) Embarked, in tandem with the need of the Government, justified the promise of the Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero, to enable "a joint homeless" and the Moroni agreement, to that "wages grow above inflation."
A note: the Minister of Labor gave in after talking with his friend the President at the end of the tour of Tucumán.
On that point there was also an acknowledgment by the Government.
Is that, as Daer and Yasky blanked, the number on which that recovery could turn ranges between two and four percent.
“
Nobody asked for the 20% that was lost last year
.
There was too much rationality ”, they highlighted.
A union leader who participated in the meeting and did not speak publicly explained the reason for such reciprocity: “This year many important things are at stake, the future of the country, and we are all very aware that we have to rise to the occasion and We cannot waste time in pettiness, because at the front is macrismo ”.
Curiously, at the meeting, without microphones involved, there were no party slogans in relation to Mauricio Macri.
As soon as the stationer Carlos Acuña recalled that from the CGT they understand that the complications of the economy and the drop in wages began with the previous government.
However, for this Thursday, the Government foresees a different story.
"
In the second half we are not going to be so loose, we may have to hang from the crossbar,
" completed the official.
