The mayor of General Pueyrredón with headquarters in the city of Mar del Plata, Guillermo Montenegro, criticized this Wednesday the new collective agreement of the municipal employees of that district. The measure, which was approved by the Ministry of Labor of the Buenos Aires government of Axel Kicillof, includes hereditary positions in the Commune, which “generates a kind of noble title” at the discretion of the communal chief.
His claim took place during a press conference that he gave during the day, although the approval of the agreement took place last Thursday. Nevertheless, The policy had been promoted in 2017 by the former mayor of Together for Change Carlos Arroyodied in 2022, who was in the municipal Executive between 2015 and 2019, while María Eugenia Vidal was governor of Buenos Aires.
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“In 2017, former mayor Carlos Arroyo and the Municipal Employees Union signed a collective agreement that was presented to the Ministry of Labor for approval. Seven years later, due to those ‘coincidences of life’, last Thursday the Ministry of Labor of the Province of Buenos Aires registered the aforementioned agreement,” Montenegro protested, while questioning: “Why is the provincial government choosing to do it now and not seven years ago when this project was introduced?”.
Likewise, the former Minister of Justice and Security of the City of Buenos Aires assured that “among other things, the agreement says that The position of municipal employees is hereditary, generating a type of municipal nobility title.; that when he starts working he automatically has 30 days of vacation, that is, more than double that of any employee in the country, among other completely unprecedented issues.”
Continuing with his claim, the mayor indicated that the agreement “establishes the impossibility of transferring an employee if this affects the principle of family unity, undermines its dignity or is morally or materially affected; a mandatory recategorization’: so that when a worker is three years away from retiring, he has to be promoted one category of his position and, if that category does not exist, a special one is invented.
Furthermore, he explained that “establish 18 types of licenses“the modification of the vacation regime“In other words, we are talking about more than twice as many vacation days as any worker in the country,” said the communal chief.
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Another point that Montenegro criticized is the creation of “a solidarity contribution and employer contribution: through which workers -whether they are affiliated or not- have to contribute 0.5% of their remuneration, and the Municipality must also contribute 1% of the salary mass for the Union.”
Along these lines, the mayor indicated that it is “neighbors’ money.” “Do you think it’s okay to use neighbors’ money to finance the Union? It is one thing for whoever wants to be a member to make their contribution, we are not going to discuss this, but forcing that all people from Mar del Plata have to pay their taxes to make a contribution to a union structure? “, he added.
The support of Senator Alejandro Rabinovich
In line with his sayings, the provincial senator from Together for Change Alejandro Rabinovich published a message on his social networks where he considered that the point about hereditary positions is about “something deranged, irrational, pre-French Revolution”. “It has been 235 years since the word ‘establishments’ has been heard to classify people in a city. Until today: hereditary noble title of the municipal employee,” he said.
It has been 235 years since the word “establishments” has been heard to classify people in a city. Until today: Hereditary noble title of the municipal employee. Yes, something crazy, irrational, pre-French Revolution. Why is this happening now? In December 2015, the former… pic.twitter.com/0Usd6HMX3l
— Alejandro Rabinovich (@arabinovich_ok) May 8, 2024
He also protested the seven years of delay for the agreement to be approvedhighlighting that the Labor portfolio is “commanded” by the Buenos Aires governor: “Why is this happening now? In December 2015, former mayor Arroyo created a commission to prepare a collective labor agreement with municipal employees. In 2017 “That agreement was presented to the Ministry of Labor of the Province of Buenos Aires. A few days ago that agreement was registered. The Ministry today is commanded by Axel Kicillof.”
In conclusion, he questioned “all the ridiculous things that they want the people of Mar del Plata to paytoast and accept as if they were the subjects of this group of scourges that lives, literally, in another era of world history.”
MB / ED