Héctor Daer
came out with strong criticism of the Government of Javier Milei.
In a series of radio interviews, one of the general secretaries of the CGT accused the Casa Rosada of promoting "an absolutely impoverished country" and, in line with other statements by Pablo Moyano, he once again spoke of a strike by the labor union.
The one who exploded with fury over Daer's statements was
José Luis Espert
: "
Caradura, not even a strike for Alberto Fernández."
"Celebrating the January fiscal surplus by not having paid anything, not having derived any of the funds, not having sent a peso to any of the canteens, which liquefied pensions, salaries, if this is the direction, it is not going to improve nothing," said Daer this Saturday, echoing the self-celebrated fiscal surplus that the Economy announced late on Friday.
That was, in addition, one of the phrases that he highlighted on his social networks, where he concluded:
"It is going to make a country absolutely impoverished."
The Avanza Libertad deputy, very close to the ruling party and who played a key role in the debate in commissions of the Omnibus Law, responded directly to that message from the Health union member.
"Caradura. Not a strike against Alberto Fernández
who left us 50% poor and melted half the world
and killed people with his caveman quarantine," attacked the national legislator.
Jose Luis Espert, attentive in the corridors of Congress.
Photo Federico Lopez Claro
"You have no face," he insisted with the disqualifications.
And he concluded with an allusion to a measure that the Government is evaluating and that would mean a direct blow to unionism: "Social Works should be taken away from you and people should contribute directly to the real health providers."
Milei's plan is to pass his "chainsaw", as he touted the adjustment during the campaign, on the guilds.
This is a reduction in the resources allocated to financing union social works, a key source for the CGT leaders.
In fact, in January the Government did not transfer to union providers some $5,000 million corresponding to the SUR program that subsidizes highly complex treatments and high-cost medications.
Now, it would cut the resources of the Solidarity Redistribution Fund (FSR) by a third, so services for the disabled would be affected.
It would also cancel the automatic subsidies from SUMA, SUMA+ and SANO, intended to compensate for the contributions received by social works from monotributistas, retirees and low-wage workers.
Thus, the unions would have to face this void with their own resources.
The CGT threatens a new strike against Milei
On January 24, the General Confederation of Labor carried out a first strike against the Government of Javier Milei, in the middle of the discussion of the Omnibus Law that finally foundered in the debate, particularly in the Deputies.
It was the fastest strike against a government since the return of democracy.
And it was the reactivation of that protest mechanism after not having used it throughout the management of the Frente de Todos.
Héctor Daer and Pablo Moyano, general secretaries of the CGT.
Photo Marcelo Carroll
This Saturday, both Daer and his CGT colleague Pablo Moyano
warned of an escalation in the conflict.
The Health Ministry assessed that La Rosada "is generating all the conditions for a new measure."
He also warned that a strike or mobilization "is not an end in itself" but rather "has the purpose of drawing attention and generating a demand for a salary increase."
"There are going to be a number of sectoral conflicts over salary increases, there should only be around 30% of the activities that have recomposed their salaries and none in a satisfactory manner," he added on
Radio Miter
.
Pablo Moyano, from Camioneros, expressed himself in the same tone.
"There have only been two months of government and it seems that this guy has been there for 10 years. If in just two months he caused so much damage...He himself said that March and April are going to be the worst months. Well,
he should prepare himself because we are not going to be mere spectators
of how it is destroying the country, the sovereignty, the State companies. Get ready because we are going to rise to the occasion," Moyano warned.
And in dialogue with
Radio 10,
he alluded to Milei's attacks against Lali Espósito on social networks: "With the seriousness that the country is experiencing, the guy is in a media fight through a tweet.
Get to work, brother
. We "We complained that (Mauricio) Macri at 7 o'clock said he was arriving in Olivos and was going to watch Netflix and this guy spends all day on Twitter."