The CGT is divided between leaders who show a stance more inclined to dialogue and others who are combative, who do not even study the possibility of sitting down with the administration. Javier Milei, that is betting chips on enshrining, in the short term, a labor reform. On the one hand, they are among the dialogueists Hector Daer y Andres Rodriguez while on the other side Pablo Moyano y Omar Palazzo They appear as the staunch opponents of libertarian management.
Daer is one of the triumvirs of the Azopardo central (he is also the leader of the Health union) and, as his environment indicates, he tries to maintain conversations with the governments in power as long as union interests are not touched. In the last week, he was in charge of opening talks again with the Casa Rosada, precisely with the Minister of the Interior, and asks that the joint agreements above inflation end up being sealed. That was what he firmly expressed to Santiago Caputomain advisor of Javier Milei, already Julio CorderoSecretary of Labor, in the final part of Wednesday’s meeting.
Andrés Rodríguez, one of the members of the Cegetista small table and in charge of leading UPCN, is another of the leaders who are on the side of dialogue. Precisely, he has known Francos for decades and, before December 10, he maintained contact with the minister. “I don’t see an anti-union bias on Milei’s part“, he said to his people in the first days of December. And, like Daer, he believes that the CGT should be part of the discussion of changes in the world of work. “We have no problem agreeing on a labor reform if we are called upon, but we do not want nor will we support the destruction of the union structure.” he said at this year’s Amcham forum.
Pablo Moyano and his “miss” at the meeting with the Government: “I can’t sit at a table with guys who laugh in your face”
On the other side, Pablo Moyano appears. The man from Camioneros, triumvir of the CGT, does not abandon his style, uncompromising, which led him to miss the meeting with the ruling party despite the fact that in the hours before the meeting at Balcarce 50 they confirmed it. “I can’t sit at a table with guys who laugh in your face when they close Télam or don’t send food to the dining rooms, I didn’t go because of a skin issue.”he explained.
Obviously, he was one of the first leaders to ask for a new national strike. Omar Palazzo is another of the combatives: leader of La Bancaria and national deputy of UxP, he moves in line with Moyano. He opposed from the first minute the privatization of Banco Nación, an objective of LLA, and always stated that unionism had to move towards a measure of force in “total unity”.
The movements to the street
The social movements, both the most combative and those that were part of the Alberto Fernández administration, moved together last Wednesday to protest on Avenida 9 de Julio. An activity that ended with a repression and that emboldens them to return to the streets of downtown Buenos Aires.
Omar Plaini: “It was inevitable that we continued with the fight plan”
A leader, who is part of the most important conversations of the organizations, maintained that there will be upcoming meetings to carry out a “massive” activity that begins on July 9 and ends in the Plaza de Mayo, capable of bringing together more than one hundred thousand. people. A date? Next week, although logistics details remain to be defined. There is more: they ask that the ten detainees from Wednesday’s march be released.
March of social movements
The message is shared from the UTEP, the Polo Obrero, the Classist and Combative Current, Libres del Sur to the Coordinator for Social Change. A member of the Milei administration clarified that the Government does not plan to negotiate with social movements: “They are all left-handed and managers of poverty”, he launches emphatically.
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