The CGT continues its lukewarm campaign against labor reform, by other means. Last Thursday we saw a mobilization in Plaza de Mayo that will not remain in the history of the labor movement either for its massiveness, nor for its combativeness, nor for its speeches.
However, some of its leaders believe that the failure of Patricia Bullrich’s “stampede” in the Senate proves their strategy: screwball and palace maneuvers right. They forget that an adjustment budget was voted on and that many governors know that the laws or funds won through the struggle (the fallen “Chapter 11”) are not as easy to deliver, as they were warned by the disability group and the university movement.
But the CGT continues with its line. Now trying to appear informed and open to dialogue on right-wing channels. That’s why Jorge Sola was on the Business Community program on LN+.
He said one coherent thing, which the economic journalists did not know how to answer: “This Government changed three things that had to do with labor relations. It removed fines from black employment, so anyone who had an employee could do so without being charged a fine. It created the figure of the independent worker, which allowed the owner of a kiosk to hire three workers without a dependency relationship. And it extended the trial period. None of those things generated more work. Work has fallen. 200,000 formal jobs and 20,000 fewer SMEs in two years.”
TRUE.
He also warned about the fallacies of libertarian proposals. “According to the official discourse, it would be an agreement between worker and employer. Which worker will be able to decide when he or she goes to work and when not? The employer controls it,” he said.
Too obvious.
The issue is that all these “reflections” are to end up looking for ways to negotiate with the government.
“We believe that there has to be labor modernization, but with the sectors that will have the benefits or harms included in the discussion,” said Sola. This is how you show the cards of your strategy: make a reform “less bad” than the libertarian project. Something that some businessmen take for granted: throw away the maximum plan to negotiate some things.
The issue is that the 197 articles of the project are an encyclopedia of employer law. If someone is not, it will be because they missed it accidentally.
In case there were any doubts, Sola insisted on his willingness to negotiate. “They did not summon us, evidently because there is an ideological bias. It consists of looking at us as political adversaries and not as strategic partners.”
Instead of feeling proud of having an ideological adversity with a president who is a mercenary of financial capital and who starves the people, Sola is concerned. And he proposes a “strategic society.”
Either they are poorly advised or they are advancing a betrayal.
Gerardo Martínez participated in the May Council without telling the working class about the nonsense they were writing. Sola wants a dialogue table behind the backs of “the harmed.” What’s wrong with them? Don’t you see the rejection that runs from below to the actions of the CGT? Don’t you see the rejection that their bureaucratic privileges and betrayals generate in millions? Don’t you see that this discredit is one of the weapons of the enemy?
A simple piece of advice, after scrolling through Thursday’s columns: you don’t have a check to negotiate slavery, fight or leave.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
