With decisive dates approaching for the treatment of the Labor Reform in the Senate, which could be February 11, different union leaders are beginning to announce different measures of struggle, although at the moment they are very insufficient.
It is worth remembering that the leadership of the CGT has been betting on a strategy of not calling for any measure of struggle, but rather negotiating some point or another, passing up the core of the slave attack that seeks to attack collective agreements, the right to strike, working hours, vacations and many other points.
In this framework, there is a group of union leaders who have a somewhat critical position of the CGT triumvirate. This Wednesday ATE, UOM, Oil, Aeronautics and other unions communicated some combat measures.
According to Rodolfo Aguiar of ATE, this group of unions, grouped together in a “Unity Front”, launched a plan to fight against the labor reform. Among the measures announced are a mobilization in Córdoba on February 5 and in Rosario on the 10th, with the aim of exposing the governors. “Those who seek to endorse this reform must be made evident. This is a labor reform that does not go against the workers, it directly GOES AGAINST ARGENTINA,” said Aguiar.
At the same time, the Secretary General of ATE warned that “we must not rule out that the labor reform is for the president what the pension reform was for Macri.” The day before, the same leader had referred to the need for a national strike, but without specifics.
The measures announced are not yet up to the task of representing a real challenge to the plans of the government and the great economic power. Daniel Yofra from Aceiteros himself recently stated, in an interview with Página 12, that “one day of strike is not enough to stop the labor reform.”
From the left and combative unionism, it has been proposed that we should not rely on any negotiation or on making testimonial and isolated measures. In upcoming coordination meetings, such as the one that will be held in the Northern Zone of the GBA this coming Saturday, the perspective of promoting the organized force of those from below will be discussed to impose a different course on the CGT and the CTA. According to the call for Saturday, there is support for emblematic struggles such as Lustramax, ILVA, Granja 3 Arroyos, Sealed Air, Dr Ahorro, among many others that are ongoing, but also the demand that the union centers “must call for a national strike and mobilization on the day the reform is discussed in Congress, and a plan of struggle until the entire slave plan falls.”
In this sense, the announcement of the “Unity Front” is still very far from what is necessary, without even announcing a strong strike of all the unions involved with a large mobilization on the day the reform is discussed and a much tougher position with the CGT, of which some of these unions are part. There is no time to waste.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
