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The strikes in the subway will be two months old: how the conflict will continue

2023-05-23T21:59:25.873Z

Highlights: This Tuesday the metro delegates fulfilled the strike number 15. They ask to work fewer hours. Rodriguez Larreta questioned that the passengers are 'hostages'.. The UTA again announced a national strike of collectives for next Tuesday, May 30.After the restoration, this is how the centenary building looks with 680 eyes that looked back at the City of Buenos Aires. The claim is to go from working 36 hours a week to 30. But the company, which has managed the subway since December 2021, says that claim is not operationally possible.


This Tuesday the metro delegates fulfilled the strike number 15. They ask to work fewer hours. Rodriguez Larreta questioned that the passengers are 'hostages'.


The subway conflict is about to turn two months next Monday and threatens to continue, as the metro delegates said on Tuesday to meet the 15th day of strike since March 29 launched the first measure of force.

The claim is to go from working 36 hours a week to 30. "Today they have only one franc per week and are asking for two," explained sources from the Emova company. But the company, which has managed the subway since December 2021, says that claim is not operationally possible.

In the middle of the conflict appears the issue of asbestos in the subways. The metro delegates argue that they seek to be less exposed to this material. From the company they say that they have been working on adeasbestization plan for more than 4 years. It is a conflict that does not seem to have a point of agreement for now.

Emova also claims that the company has 4,900 employees and that those who stop are 6 percent. "But they stop a subway and stop the whole line," they explain. The metro delegates said they will continue with the measures of force, although for now they did not announce when the next one will be.

During the strike on Tuesday, which reached all lines at different times, the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, commented on the issue: although he assured that the management is "open to dialogue", he questioned that "passengers have to be hostages of staggered strikes that complicate people's lives".

The Trade Association of Subway and Premetro Workers (AGTSyP-Metrodelegadxs) made a staggered strike on Tuesday that kept line H paralyzed between 5:30 and 9, and that from that time until noon affected line B. Then the C was added from 12 to 15 h, the E and Premetro from 15 to 18 h, and the continuity continued with the A from 18 to 21 h and the D from 21 to 00.

"Given the inflexible stance adopted by the AGTSyP and the reiteration of the measures, Emova continues to express its willingness to dialogue, but the reduction of the weekly working day from 36 to 30 hours is unfeasible without affecting the operation activities of the subway network," the company said in a statement.

They also said that the strikes "were accompanied by blockades and openings of turnstiles, in which people who were absent from their tasks participated, for which they had the discounts in the liquidation of salaries for the month of April."

Regarding the safety for workers and users due to asbestos, Emova reported that "the more than 2,500 measurements made on air quality in all areas of work of the subway, yield results considered adequate for health. The measurements are constantly carried out and are carried out by specialized institutions and laboratories that were validated by the Environmental Protection Agency of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires. This has been demonstrated and continues to be monitored that the Subway area complies with the conditions required by the regulations that regulate safety at work based on scientific and technical standards."

They added that "recently, the General Directorate of Labor Protection under the Undersecretariat of Labor, Industry and Commerce of the C.A.B.A., confirmed that "according to the measures carried out, the conditions are adequate for the development of the activity."

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The UTA again announced a national strike of collectives for next Tuesday, May 30

After the restoration, this is how the centenary building looks with 680 eyes that looked back at the City

Source: clarin

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