After a first flirtation with the new administration of Javier Milei, some doubts arose about how the Federation of Commercial Employees - the union led by Armando Cavalieri is the one with the most members in the country - would play in the general strike called for this Wednesday. for the CGT.
But this Sunday from the union itself they came out to dispel those doubts and confirmed to
Clarín
that they will also adhere to the strike and that
they will also mobilize
at the Plaza de los Dos Congresos along with the rest of the Cegetist unions, the two CTA, social movements and the Left. .
In this way, all the CGT unions
closed ranks
and will join the strike against the Government.
The union's bet is high: they seek to notice the impact of the strike in the different activities and also
mobilize some 300,000 people
to the Wednesday rally in front of Congress.
The move
contains at least two risks:
That
incidents may occur
during the demonstration, something that the CGT evaluates could occur.
“But not on the part of the unions or Peronism,” they clarify.
They say they are afraid of “radicalized sectors” among the protesters and “functional inorganic sectors” of Milei.
And they add:
“The devil can always get his tail in.”
That compliance with the strike is less than what they expect and that the mobilization has less compliance than what they are looking for.
This could show the CGT with less firepower than what inside the workers' union they take for granted they have.
But in the CGT they discard these possible dangers.
“
He who does not risk does not gain
,” reasons a powerful head of an industrial union.
CGT UOCRA TRUCKERS LEFT WORKER'S POLO UNIONS Column of the UOCRA in the march to Trubunales last December.
Photo: Maxi Failla.
Despite the internal consensus that exists in the call for strike - it is the most immediate against a Government;
It will be carried out 45 days after Milei's management begins. Inside the CGT, the differences between its different unions and currents continue to be
palpable.
The strongest tension is between the union leaders who make up the small table of the CGT - for example,
Héctor Daer
(Health)
, Gerardo Martínez
(UOCRA),
Andrés Rodríguez
(UPCN),
José Luis Lingeri
(Sanitary Works),
Cavalieri
(Commerce ) and the barrionuevistas - and union leaders identified with Kirchnerism, such as
Sergio Palazzo
(La Bancaria),
Abel Furlán
(Unión Obrera Metalúrgica) and
Mario Manrique (
SMATA).
Sector K interprets this Wednesday's strike as the
starting point of an escalation
against the National Government.
Some are even
already talking about another general strike in March.
But in the Cegetista leadership they stand up and warn that this strike will not be
“a milestone in anything”
and that what they hope is that the measure of force will enable a dialogue table with the Casa Rosada.
“Kirchnerism seeks to capitalize on the strike, make a profit and move the needle
,” accuses a historic Cegetista leader.
And complete: “In the CGT we are not and were not K. Furthermore, we were always mistreated by the K. They always criticized us and even wanted to break the agreements,” said a member of the CGT small table.
Abel Furlán, Héctor Daer and Pablo Moyano.
Photo: Juano Tesone.
Another union member added: “The differences with them are public.
We, for example,
never joined their attack against the Supreme Court of Justice.
We have a good relationship with the Court.
The only one who joined at first was Pablo Moyano, but when we talked about it he got off.”
The mention of the Court is not accidental.
The highest court must now intervene in the precautionary measure presented by the CGT against the labor reform that Milei seeks to impose through a DNU.
Internal and crossing
Although the Trade Union clarifies that there were no gestures of support for the new Government, the official announcement that the trade union will also join the general strike has a direct impact on the Cegetista internal movement.
Armando Cavalieri is a member of the Fats group, together with the co-secretary general of the CGT, Héctor Daer.
Without the company of the business leader, Daer
was left alone in the Cegetista internal affairs.
Some attribute this to why the Health leader has shown tougher stances in recent days.
“
You will not be able to walk down the street
,” Daer warned on Saturday to legislators from opposition blocs who are in negotiations with the Government to approve the package of reform laws sent by the Executive Branch.
The railway leader
Omar Maturano
differentiated himself this Sunday from Daer.
“The escrache has to stop.
They also scolded us and it seems bad to me.
Everyone has to think how they want to think.
“Everyone has to be free,” he said.
Railway worker Omar Maturano.
But other CGT unionists
relativized
Daer's words.
“And about the pressures of the Casa Rosada on the governors and parliamentarians to get the law passed, no one says anything?” complained a Cegetista boss.
This Monday the leaders of the CGT small board are scheduled to have a meeting to polish the final details of the mobilization.
A draft
of the text that will be read is already circulating
, focused on the socio-labor issue and with
nods to the middle sectors
who, they understand, were most harmed at the start of Milei's management.
Some leaders are evaluating the possibility of having speakers at the event.
There is talk that they could be the three Cegetista co-secretaries general, Daer, Pablo Moyano and
Carlos Acuña
.
“Something brief, three minutes each,” says a union leader.
One of the three, however, was already suggested not to speak because
he could be exposed to a whistle
.