The negotiation is open
. With this premise, although they admit that
the CGT's call for a general strike
for next May 9, the day after the institutional dialogue was resumed, was “surprising,” the Government
is confident of being able to reverse the measure of force.
So much so that the order that came from the Casa Rosada to the Cabinet and to the libertarian communication apparatus was to criticize the decision of the unions but maintain the forms and
not unleash a personal crusade "with a first and last name."
The first to comply with the strategy was President Javier Milei, who on his last day in the United States focused on the summit with billionaire Elon Musk and refrained from giving his opinion on the unions. He also did not echo tweets with grievances towards the leadership of the labor union, as happened on other occasions. Those who spoke with the president in the last few hours confided to
Clarín
that they heard him “calm” and convinced of sticking to a dialogue strategy: “Nothing changes for us, the plan remains in place,
whether or not to go on strike is their decision.”
and that they will have to explain to their members,” is the premise that arises from the presidential environment.
It is based, among other issues, on the data from some surveys that the Government has - and they also saw in the CGT - which shows that
70 percent of Argentines reject a strike.
The strategy of calming the waters was a contrast to what had been heard on Thursday, at least off the microphone. The first official reaction had been to very strongly question the general strike. Perhaps because of the surprise effect, the Government spoke of
a “betrayal” of the union members and considered the measure “extortionate
. ”
"Overnight they changed their minds," they reproached, alluding to the friendly tone of the summit they had held in the Hall of Shields of Casa Rosada.
In some official offices, strong insults were heard towards the union priests and they warned that the announcement had definitively broken all bridges. "You can't negotiate with these people, it's the fable of the frog and the scorpion," said a senior government source.
However, no one came out to voice it publicly because the Government's interlocutors were still not entirely clear about what had happened behind the scenes of the CGT summit.
There are those who attribute the Government's decision to suspend the usual press conference of the presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adorni, to this rethinking. The explanation they gave was not convincing: so that it did not overlap with the summit that the President held with Elon Musk in Austin, Texas, something that would not have happened: the first photos began to circulate after 2:00 p.m., three hours later than the time in the one the spokesperson usually speaks.
The advisor
Santiago Caputo, who was at the meeting with the CG
T even though he was not included in the list of those present that the Government circulated due to its intention to maintain an extremely low profile,
gave the order not to further strain the bond
. Those who spoke publicly were instructed to “avoid personal disqualifications” and focus on “questioning the strike.” "You don't attack with first and last name," was the message, confided a senior official.
Thus, the Minister of Human Capital, Sandra Pettovello, who has the Secretary of Labor, Julio Cordero, under her orbit, chose not to confront and remained silent. The rest of the Cabinet contained the desire to cross Héctor
Daer, Carlos Acuña and Pablo Moyano.
The one who gave the official word was Guillermo Francos, who recovered the dialogue with the CGT in recent weeks, after the link was frozen when Milei advanced with the mega DNU. Despite the rudeness, the Minister of the Interior insisted with his call for dialogue: "We are surely going to talk these days with them again to analyze the proposals that other political sectors have made to us," he said. It is not clear if it will be in person or by telephone.
And there is optimism in being able to bring positions closer together. "
The (labor) reform does not contain anything that generates fear.
If we resolve the issue with Truckers, the hardliners will be left without excuses and the most dialogue-oriented will have a way to kick the dole," they argue in the Government.
"We want to have a constructive relationship with unionism," they add.
As Clarín
recounted ,
Caputo conveyed to the union members at Wednesday's meeting that
“there is no decision to have an ideological confrontation
or intention to demonize the unions.”
However, the Government does not set a deadline for negotiations with the unions: "There is time, there is still a lot left. They do not seem to be in a hurry either. Our priority is to move forward with the reform that we present in the Base Law and the project that the radicals presented," they stated from the Cabinet.
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