It is becoming increasingly clear that the labor reform proposed by the ruling party is a regular attack against the entire working class. An attempt to break historical rights won in different fights. They seek to benefit employers in exchange for violating the right to organize, to strike, and to make layoffs easier and cheaper. They want us slaves.
In the mobilization, workers from different unions spoke with this newspaper, explaining the brutal nature of the attack and the measures necessary to confront it. They began by telling why they were on December 18, with more than 30° in the shade, in the Plaza de Mayo:
“We came to fight for the rights of all workers, for what belongs to us,” said an oil worker.
“It would have to be the beginning of something,” said another and added: “we have been in need of strong union representation for a long time,” realizing that yesterday’s march is insufficient to bring down this reactionary plan.
“I work for the Techint group, which is the most pro-slavery group and is at the forefront of this reform. We cannot depend on the deputies and senators who are going to seek to have their arrangements to have an economic rescue,” said another worker, in relation to the Secretary of Labor Julio Cordero, one of the drafters of this increasingly hated reform.
“The oil Federation determined a strike with mobilization so today all the plants are stopped” an oil worker told us and denounced the employers: “They want to keep more wealth than they have. This reform comes to take the money from us to give it to them and take away our rights, so that they can do with our lives what they want.”
Another denounced the current adjustment: “I have never experienced what we are experiencing now. For the first time I am using the card to eat. The adjustment is being made among those who have the least in favor of those who have the most.”
But they did not stop there, the voices multiplied that realized that this is more than insufficient: “We believe that to mobilize and for more people to come, it is with unemployment, so that people understand that without us production stops, there is no work and not even the big ones, the small ones, no company is going to produce, so that this is more noticeable,” an oil worker told us.
“True total strike, without groups, without anything,” said one, and a UATRE worker proposed “strike and plan of struggle, two years of Milei and they did nothing.” And another reported that he was hot because Bullrich had sent the gendarmerie to gas his grandmother.
Another employee stated: “This cannot continue like this, it seems like a picnic (…) these people go up to talk and everyone is very angry because we cannot continue like this and let this reform pass.”
“The only thing that is going to save the worker is another worker and we deserve the support of all the unions” was heard beyond” and “without a doubt it is in the street and without a doubt it is with the strike” or “this would have to be a total strike.” This is the anger that grows in the street in the face of the government’s attempts to mortgage our present and future, seeing how the CGT calls for isolated and minority actions, trying not to express the enormous power of the working class, capable of paralyzing the whole of the country and liquidate the reactionary plans of the bourgeoisie and the libertarians in the government.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
