"We are
on the verge of extreme social conflict
."
This stark warning was the main line of the message that the head of the UOCRA, Gerardo Martínez, on behalf of the CGT, transmitted this Thursday in a face-to-face meeting
with the number two of the International Monetary Fund, Gita Gopinath,
as a balance of the measures ordered by the government of Javier Milei in his first two months in office.
The trade unionist, who attended the meeting alone with all the IMF staff accompanying Gopinath on his visit to the country, expressed his concern about the deterioration of the socioeconomic situation and its effects on the labor and production scenario, reproaching the lack of dialogue the libertarian administration and
questioned the depth of the adjustment
on workers, retirees and the most vulnerable sectors.
"We observe that
the social chaos will be very great
because what we see so far is only a mega adjustment without any type of containment," Martínez told Clarín
about
the look he conveyed to the representatives of the Fund during the meeting, which took place It lasted 35 minutes and took place just an hour after the meeting that Gopinath had with Milei at the Casa Rosada.
In this regard, the leader
defended the general strike that the CGT
carried out on January 24, when just over 40 days had passed since the start of Milei's government, pointing out that it was a reaction to the refusal of the Casa Rosada to enable a dialogue table that, as he stressed, would allow discussion of "all the restrictive measures that have generated a level of recession never seen before."
The meeting between Martínez and the number two of the IMF,
anticipated this Wednesday by Clarín
, occurred in the midst of the strong tension installed in the link between the Government and the labor union that threatens to continue escalating in the coming weeks.
The Cegetista leadership rejected any possibility of accelerating the call for a new general force measure in the short term, although the scenario of conflicts over salary improvements in multiple activities is multiplying.
To the measure of force of La Fraternidad that on Wednesday paralyzed the train service, this Thursday was added the strike of Health workers, while a protest by ATE workers is planned for Monday and the teaching unions threaten to not begin classes in the absence of a call for the federal joint activity.
In his conversation with Gopinath, the head of the UOCRA warned about this scenario of conflict and criticized that the President insists on rejecting any instance of dialogue between unionism and other social sectors.
"I conveyed to them that we believe that in the current situation in Argentina there is not a single political force capable of finding solutions and that is why the need for a political, economic and social dialogue table with the desire to seek consensus is imposed," The union member indicated about the meeting with the Fund staff.
In the same sense, he also warned that "no economic stabilization plan is seen so far" behind the measures ordered by Milei since his arrival in the Government and specifically questioned the megaDNU 70/23, whose labor reform chapter is held up by a ruling judicial after a presentation by the labor union that claimed its unconstitutionality.
"It is a plan of fierce fiscal adjustment that affects the most vulnerable classes, retirees and employees, and that will dramatically affect the standard of living of society, the levels of production and consumption and the potential economic growth of Argentina. "Martínez stressed about the union message to the Fund.