Bus strike called off: when will traffic return

After the held virtual meeting, the workers who performed a Bus station in DOTA company They extracted the proposal from the Ministry of Labor and after sending it to the assembly, they accepted it.

So in the next few hours Service will continue as normal. In short, the company Dota promised to pay salaries.

Measure of force reached lines 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 28, 31, 44, 50, 51, 56, 57, 74, 76, 79, 84, 91, 99, 101, 107, 108, 117, 135, 146, 150, 161, 164, 168, 177, 188, 263, 271, 299, 370, 373, 384, 385, 388, 403, 405, 421, 429, 435, 503, 514, 520.

Miguel Bustinduy, from UTA, confirmed that normal service will resume for the next two hours. Around 5 p.m., the union leader estimated.

“The conflict arose because the company’s responsibility was to pay the workers,” Labor Secretary Raquel “Kelly” Olmos complained shortly before the riot. “We as a country are trying to work together to solve it. There is no conflict of interest. This is a contract termination“, said the minister.

The origin of the conflict

Employees of the public transport of passengers DOTA from the early hours of the morning today they suspended the activity which affects some 50 bus lines in the metropolitan area of ​​Buenos Aires (AMBA), for which the National Commission for the Regulation of Traffic (CNRT) has carried out the relevant controls to verify compliance with services and their frequencies on lines of national jurisdiction.

The claim, which arose from a salary debt, this morning complicated the transfer of passengers from various points in the suburbs of Buenos Aires to the city of Buenos Aires and vice versa.

In this sense, the Secretary of Interjurisdictional Articulation of the Ministry of Transport of the Nation, Mark Farinahe pointed out that the protest was “surprising and many”.

“It is not a strike by UTA, but by a part of the workers who made up the leadership of UTA that lost the elections in September,” the official said. He meant the group mentioned in Miguel Bustinduyfrom UTA.

Farina pointed out that “it hurts a lot and we are trying to reach a good understanding. 10 days ago, joint negotiations between UTA and businessmen ended and the state recognized the cost restructuring, but the only sector that did not sign the salary agreement of the five chambers of AMBA was the chamber that today represents these workers,” the official said in a statement to Radio Nacional.

Regarding salary delays, he asserted that “they are not civil servants, but employers who have a public transport system”.

Thus, around 5 p.m., the service will return to normal traffic.