Neither the movements of the CGT, which anticipated that next week it will define the "modality of action" of a new protest, nor the warning from truck driver Pablo Moyano, who threatened that "not a leaf or a pen will move at all." the country" if they do not approve the joint agreement of their union.
In the Cabinet meeting of around two hours, the Government did not address the union conflict, with the premise that "it is not our problem" but that of the union leaders: "We are not concerned about what they want to do. It is clear that they have other interests to the rest of the Argentines and we cannot do anything: we are not going to change our roadmap," explained a high official source present at the summit.
Beyond the discursive, it is the analysis carried out in Balcarce 50 that takes away the drama from the view on the decision of the workers' union.
"They have no room to call another strike," they say from the Cabinet,
not only because the first one was called in record time (18 days after Milei took office) and was carried out with relative success on January 24. "They already rushed once, they are not going to make that mistake again. They are tense but they know that there is no breeding ground for another strike," completes a senior official.
In the Government, a survey was circulated that an important consulting firm carried out at the request of a private client, which reflected that
nearly 70 percent of Argentines rejected the possibility of a general strike. That survey,
Clarín
learned
, also reached some union members, who despite the media fireworks today lean towards an intermediate measure.
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The general secretary of Truckers clarified that if there is no increase by Monday, there will be consequences.
The presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adorni, focused on the CGT's dissociated agenda and the role it played during the administration of Alberto Fernández, who
did not suffer any forceful measures in four years:
"It catches our attention that suddenly there are so many proposals We continue trying to understand what are the reasons that keep them (union members) asleep and what are the reasons that wake them up, after they were asleep for so many years, with so much inflation, so much poverty and so many workers in poor salary conditions. labor," he explained.
Although the profile of the Ministry of Labor hardened with the arrival of Julio Cordero after the dismissal of Omar Yasín, considered more pro-dialogue, the bridges are not broken. There are communicating vessels that let the limits of understanding be known on both sides.
The unions are attentive to the definitions that the Minister of Human Capital,
Sandra Pettovello, who is in charge of the Labor area,
must take . The closest friend that the President has in his Cabinet outlines the scope that the labor reform will have in the Bases Law that the Government will send to Congress and analyzes a point that keeps the unions in suspense: the inclusion - or not - of the article on union contributions contained in DNU 70/2023, which establishes that the withholding of a part of the salary for the payment of the dues can only be carried out with “the explicit consent of the employee authorizing the same.”
The Government's idea,
as Clarín said
, is to exclude that article, because in the preliminary polls,
a sector of the dialogueist opposition proposed it to guarantee the approval of the labor reform.
On alert, the unions wait to see the final text that will go to Congress. Perhaps this explains the decision to postpone the announcement of the measure until next week.
The Government knows that without that excuse, it will be difficult for the CGT to justify a strike:
"Are you going to say that you are worried that we will cut 15,000 state contracts that were used for politics?"
they ask from the Cabinet. .
In that sense, Pablo Moyano's statements were replied with irony by Adorni: "If he has the power to ensure that not a pen or a leaf moves in this country, we are wrong, so I suppose what he said was an exaggeration." said".
Although the spokesperson did not say it, the Government is convinced that the most radicalized sectors of the CGT will not prevail in the definition of a strike.