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Piqueteros demonstrate at the Obelisk on another day of protests against the Government

2021-03-04T18:22:40.434Z


Members of different organizations ask for an increase in the minimum wage, insurance for the unemployed and an increase in social plans.


03/04/2021 11:05

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

Updated 03/04/2021 1:50 PM

Militants of social organizations gather in different parts of the City of Buenos Aires to hold a protest in the vicinity of the Obelisk, demanding genuine work and an increase in social plans.

The concentration began at 11 in the morning and at noon

Corrientes avenue

was completely cut off

at the junction with 9 de Julio.

And they are later mobilized to the Alem headquarters of the National Labor Ministry.

Meanwhile,

workers from delivery companies

cut the rise of Miter,

Puente Pueyrredón

, hand to the City, demanding security measures against the wave of robberies.

Later they will also march to the Obelisk.

The protest was called by the

Front of Organizations in Struggle

, together with the

Polo Obrero

, among other groups, who mobilize in a day with replicas in other 21 provinces to ask for genuine work.

"No more! Day of struggle throughout the country for genuine work"

, is the main slogan of the protest of the organizations, which decided to mobilize this Thursday in a plenary session last Friday.


Delivery workers cut the Pueyrredón Bridge.

Photo Guillermo Rodríguez Adami.

There, it was also decided to bring other claims such as an increase in the minimum wage, vital and mobile, insurance for the unemployed equal to the basic food basket ($ 56,459), an increase in social programs and "vaccines for all workers" .

"Regarding the drama of land, housing and genuine work, Alberto Fernández

did not announce any fundamental solution

and on top of that, the rent freeze was released, which will raise costs even more, leaving hundreds of thousands homeless. and pushing families to live on the margins, "they complained in a statement.

Last Thursday, the Polo Obrero, Barrios de Pie and the FOL also held a protest in the Obelisco to demand the Buenos Aires government for the changes made in the Veredas Limpias program, which affects about 2,500 cooperative members.

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Source: clarin

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