State unions, including ATE Nacional, are calling to stop and mobilize against the labor reform. ATE Capital had already announced it in a meeting of its Board of Directors. We state workers have to take advantage of the framework of the strike called and take it into our hands, hold assemblies and prepare a large mobilization together with other struggling social and political sectors to surround Congress against the labor reform.
The national government has launched a plan for “slavery” reforms. The objective is clear: to deepen labor flexibility and dismantle historical achievements under the promise of supposed economic competitiveness. For the state, advancing the labor reform will deepen the dynamics of adjustment that we are already experiencing and could even have direct implications through the closure of areas that guarantee many of the rights or regulations that the law seeks to throw away.
The scenario is marked by a direct offensive against the living conditions of the working majorities. The analysis of recent weeks reveals a “shock” government strategy that seeks to dismantle the legal protection of employees. For this, it relies on the lack of a forceful plan of struggle of the labor confederations and the virtual paralysis of Peronism, the main opposition force.
The left that has a national extension and references such as Myriam Bregman, Nicolás del Caño and Christian Castilloamong others, and is participating in important struggles such as Lustramaxhas been carrying out a campaign of agitation and organization against the reform in the main cities of the country, seeking to put on the agenda what the rest of the political sectors refuse to confront decisively. Myriam Bregman’s denunciation of what was done by the libertarian Florencia Arrieto clarifies about these small laboratories that the employers and the Government They are carrying out as a preview of what they are looking for with the reform.
The attack is not only towards salaries and agreements. The advance on the Glacier Law demonstrates that labor reform is the necessary complement to an extractivist model that requires cheap labor without the capacity for resistance to facilitate the delivery of strategic resources to foreign interests.
The passivity of the CGT leadership It gives the government golden time to consolidate its legislative agenda. The lack of a national strike with continuity allows the adjustment to be applied “drop by drop”, wearing down the workers’ response capacity.
Given the paralysis of the traditional leadership, the need arises to redouble the resistance campaign from the bases. The premise is that no sectoral conquest will be permanent if the destruction of the legal framework that protects work is allowed. Therefore, the coordination between employed workers, unemployed workers and sectors in struggle is key to face the Milei project in a coordinated manner.
The call for strike by ATE and other state unions It gives a margin for the state workers from all over the country to participate massively in the strike day and in the mobilizations called. We have to prepare it in assemblies by sector, with a great dissemination campaign against the labor reform and in CABA we mobilize to surround the congress the day they want to discuss it. There is a fight so that this mobilization becomes a true day of struggle, that they do not take us to an event with an end time scheduled in advance, we have to mobilize and win the streets to prevent them from voting on the law. When in 2017 we were against the pension reformbegan the saying of the Government of Mauricio Macri that also implements a strong adjustment on the state and workers. We have to recover those imaginaries and win the streets with that combativeness that we knew how to build.
The Oilers They have also already decided to go on strike on the day the law is discussed, something that many other labor organizations can and should consider. Along with other important unions such as the UOM They announced a strike and mobilization on the day the law is discussed. Now we have to organize it so that it is a true day of struggle.
If the rest of the leaders of the unions do not call for a strike for that day, we must push for the anger to be expressed in the way necessary. Meetings like the one held by the Northern Zone Coordinatorto surround the struggle of Lustramax with solidarity, the one in the South zone and other similar instances that are being set up in different parts of the country show the way to organize the resistance. It is hard struggles like that of Lustramax that have generated a more widespread solidarity, which includes the support of union sectors that had not been playing a role until now in the conflict, such as the banking sector or ATE Capital itself. These supports are a point from which to start a great campaign against the reform and risk moving all the force organized by the unions, with previous assemblies, tours, dissemination, as the INDEC workers and its Internal Board will do by organizing a talk to debate the reform, among other initiatives.
We must continue demanding from the CGT and the leadership of UPCN that secretly negotiates the articles of the reform that they join the call for a national strike with mobilization so that this reform does not pass.
Finally, the mobilizations in the US show that it is the working people who are putting limits by confronting Trump, who is Milei’s main supporter, and right-wing groups. These mobilizations are great news and a huge point of support for the workers in Argentina.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
