“The CGT must call for a national strike”

This Friday, with the support of social, union, human rights organizations and national deputies of the Left Frontgroups of Retirees who are mobilizing in front of Congress they held a press conference. It was at the headquarters of the Sutna (tire union), where they called for A new mobilization on Wednesday, September 4 and to which they called upon the union leaders and the central organizations such as the CGT and the CTA.

First of all they denounced Wednesday’s repression to the march in front of Congress by the Federal Police (by the Minister of Security) Patricia Bullrich) and repudiated the announcement of Javier Miley of veto the new law of retirement mobility that would give an increase to pensions.

“Repression cannot be naturalized to retirees, is the prelude to a greater repression,” they said from the table. And they added their refusal to freeze pensions in the context of a deep economic and social crisis and the adjustment of the government of Freedom Advances to the assets of older adults.

“We defend the Retirement mobility tied to wages and we continue with more struggle, more calls. The set of The trade unions have to take charge of the claim of retirees. Call for a national strike“We call on union leaders to support our claim,” they insisted.

They added that “they want to get us off the streets because they want to impose their adjustment plan. We, the old people, already know what it is about. They are not going to get us off the streets. What’s more, we are going to demand the resignation of the Minister of Security. We have no confidence in this Congress. They give us a miserable 8% while They vote for laws against the people. The street is going to be ours in unity with the entire working class. Because it is not just an attack on pensioners, but on the working class.”

They also demanded an end to the fragmentation of the struggles. “The retirees who have not yet left the country have to go out into the streets. We are starting to stir up trouble and other sectors are starting to look at the retirees. They treat us like poor people, but they don’t know us,” they said emphatically and They called for a large mobilization (in addition to Wednesday’s) for Friday, September 20, Retirement Day.

“We have to keep organizing ourselves, inviting more colleagues, family, friends. Our mobilizations must be massive.“said one of the retirees present.

Among the organizations present were the National Coordinating Board of Retired and Pensioner Organizations of the Argentine Republiche Meeting of Retirees of Neighborhood Assemblies, Retired Insurgents, PTS retirees and other groups that bring together these sectors of workers.

They accompanied neighborhood assemblies of the City of Buenos Aires and the Buenos Aires metropolitan area, unions like the Sutna, Suteba Tigerthe AGD-UBA, CTA Capital and non-teaching staff of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the UBA; also the Association of Campo de Mayo Survivors and, as happens in every activity of these sectors in struggle, the deputies of the United Left Front.

“We are not going to naturalize the $300,000 pesos,” they said at the table. They added: “Retirees have been in solidarity with everyone, but sometimes we find ourselves fighting alone. The workers, we must say, watch it on TV. The union leaders should be ashamed to see how those who were their contributors are fighting alone and starving. The only response of this government is to beat us. We will respond to repression with more mobilization, more unity y more fight“On September 20th we are going to Plaza de Mayo.”