At this point we should already know how the Mileista machinery works as an artifact of power and government management. Actually, apply the same tactics, carries out maneuvers similar to other governments, only in an exaggerated, excessive, lush way, we could say.
How are these maneuvers? Well, generate multiple scandals at the same time, make a lot of noise, even without fear of making a fool of yourself, to discuss everyone about that, while the important thing happens elsewhere.
That did Milei this week. “The brand was taken” with the six hours in which he was stirring on the streaming channel Fuck With the Gordo Dan and all that band of olfas that surround it, so that we all discuss around that circus, and thus “dominate the public conversation”, while the central battles pass on the other hand with less light.
One of those battles is the one that is being carried out against the salary and that is obsessed with the Milei government.
Both the president and his Minister of Economy, Luis “Toto” Caputo, are convinced that wages are inflationary.
The chief of Cabinet, Guillermo Francos, admitted this week that it is necessary to put a roof to the peers. Francos said textual: “If one allows the salary to go beyond what has been established as a guideline or as a stop, obviously prices increase and those who claim today for increased salary ask for it again later because prices rise again” What does that idea enclose? That if the employer increases prices so as not to lose profit margin, it is the fault of the worker who wants the salary to live. An idea as simple as diametrically wrong.
The group’s strike strike showed the dramatic situation of employees in terms of revenue licustment. Milei had the dubious merit of making Roberto Fernández (general secretary of the UTA) make a measure of force he had announced. Fernández is characterized by threatening with strikes that he always raises at the last minute. But, of course, with a million two hundred thousand pesos of salary the situation became unsustainable.
Now, the UTA unemployment was not isolated. A quieter dispute is ongoing, more deaf in the trade union. It is less shocking in the public scene, partly because it is a more atomized guild, but also because Armando Cavalieri directs it than (like Fernández) always tries to put the greatest distance between him and any type of struggle.
Caputo wants salary increases not exceeding 1% monthly. For that reason, it intends to be reviewed down – at the risk of not being approved – the agreement recently signed between the Argentine Federation of Commerce and Services Employees and business chambers for 5.4% in three sections (1.9% in April, 1.8% in May and 1.7% in June). In fact, because of this situation, entrepreneurs are not incorporating the increase in salary settlements these days.
In an unprecedented event, last Friday, the Ministry of Labor published a statement with an implicit threat: or reformulate the parity of commerce or will not be approved because it can allegedly affect the “public order and general interest.”
Let’s put it in concrete numbers: the average salary of a trade employee is around million pesos. 5.4% increase would imply about 50 thousand pesos more divided in three months. Let’s add some non -remunerative fixed sum that can be part of the agreement and say that everything is about 10% (because the government complains about this too), but let’s say everything: we would be talking about an increase of 100 thousand pesos in three months. One hundred thousand pesos. Well, the government believes that this increase (which today is not enough and adds very little to a destroyed salary) puts the economic scheme at risk and can trigger inflation. They were summoned again to negotiate and to review the agreement down and have a further position to the right than the business chambers that had accepted the agreement.
The trade union framed one million two hundred thousand workers representing about 20% of the total jobs in the entire formal private sector. For the arrogance of your number is a witness case.
There are more unions because this is a generalized situation (metallurgical and chemicals, for example) are in similar situations and in some provinces (such as Córdoba) conflicts are multiplied by salary claims.
The Government increased the minimum wage of $ 308,200 to $ 313,400 from June 1, that is, six thousand pesos!
Let’s see, they are repudiable, outrageous, ridiculous etc. all the things that happened in the six hours of Milei in Fuckbut here a strong bracee is being played. In Argentine history, this type of pulse determined the future of governments. We can go back to the failed “Productivity Congress” at the end of the first Peronism; to the government of Isabel Perón or even the second government of Cristina Kirchner when this was expressed around the “salary tax.”
I know, many are going to say that “the situation changed a lot”, which weakened the power of organized workers. Ok. It’s true. At the level that this happens without penalty or glory? Well, if one looks that among those who had to go out to fight or discuss are Fernández and Cavalieri, it is appropriate to say that something happens.
In any case, the dispute is open, the government is bleaching that its main battle is not the “cultural battle”, but the war against salary and we will have to prepare to face it.
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