Carlos Galvan
08/02/2021 7:00
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/02/2021 7:00 AM
"La Bancaria 3-CGT 0".
The joke is repeated privately by the trade unionist Luis Barrionuevo to emphasize that the Peronist labor union was not taken into account in the distribution of candidacies in the ballots of the Frente de Todos.
The banking union, on the other hand, was favored with the candidacy for national deputy for the Province of its general secretary Sergio Palazzo.
He is going to be elected - he
is fourth on the list
- and if he wanted to, he could even command a block of La Bancaria together with the current legislators
Claudia Ormachea
and
Carlos Cisneros
, who have a mandate until 2023 and also make up the leadership of the union.
Presentation of candidates from the Frente de Todos.
Unlike the cegetista leadership, Palazzo
is aligned
with Kirchnerism and has direct access to Cristina Kirchner and Máximo Kirchner.
It was the head of La Cámpora himself who called him the day before the list was presented to
announce
that he would run as a candidate.
In La Bancaria, and also in the CGT, they
relativize
Barrionuevo's
joke
with a similar argument: they say that Palazzo represents "the entire labor movement."
In the Peronist labor union the election of the banking leader is not questioned, but they were not consulted for the assembly of the lists.
"Are we part, or not, of the Front of All?",
Complains a cegetista manager.
Before the lists were made official, the CGT moved - they met with Cabinet Chief Santiago Cafiero on this issue - to
get a union member to
join the official ballot for the province of Buenos Aires and another for Santa Fe.
"We did not even have the opportunity to discuss the issue ... They did not even answer us that they did not.
It was a total disregard,
" they describe in the union center.
And they add, crudely:
"This generates deterioration in the relationship.
Decisions are made from a nucleus and that ends up unbalancing everything."
Kirchnerism's distrust of the CGT goes back a long way.
"It is because we do not surrender to it,"
describes the general secretary of a private sector union.
Another trade unionist adds: "It is the way Kirchnerism acts.
They do not want allies, only their own
."
Wound with closing lists
Hit with the closure of lists, the CGT warns that a process of self-preservation will now begin.
"When politics is buckled on one side, we unions buckle on the other."
And immediately they seek to clarify:
"It does not mean breaking with the Government."
For now, it would mean that the union center is preparing to start a process of
autonomy and distance from official management.
"If you are not seated at a table to discuss not even the lists, the unions will all be together to have the strength and be heard when we
talk about the progress of the economy, inflation, pension assets, health,
" they warn from the cegetista dome.
This year, the CGT will renew its authorities.
Some interpreted that Palazzo's election as a candidate for deputy as a sign that
Cristina Kirchner
is
pushing him
for the cegetista general secretary.
But in the hard core of the union central they object to the radical origin of the bank and that it will be a legislator.
They allege that in the CGT
there are two unwritten laws:
that its head must be a Peronist and not be a deputy.
In La Bancaria they reply: "But Daer was not simultaneously secretary general and deputy?"
Anyway, the unions rush to hold the congress for the election of authorities.
They intend to do it between October and November,
before the general election,
lest the ruling party reap a victory and seek to get into the union.
There is nothing defined, not even the driving scheme.
Some, like
Luis Barrionuevo
, push for there to be only one headline.
In the Independents sector, they understand that the only way to achieve unity is with a collegiate leadership of three or four members.
"The problem is that many unions do not like that it is collegiate,"
says a cegetista manager.
Sergio Palazzo, general secretary of La Bancaria.
The other question that persists is what the Moyano will do.
In the union central they glimpse that Hugo will try to seat his son Pablo in the general secretary and that since he would not succeed, his sector will continue outside the CGT.
Héctor Daer sounds to continue as secretary general, even more so if it is under a collegiate leadership format.
In the Federal Stream, which leads Palazzo, they ensure that the sector
will be represented
in the future dome
