Unions will continue to fight to overturn the Milei reforms

Secretary General in General Confederation of Labor (CGT), Héctor Dáerhe said this Wednesday that unions and social organizations will continue to fight Argentina until the reformist initiatives of Javier Milei fail.

“We will continue to fight until the DNU (Decree of Necessity and Urgency) falls and they reject the omnibus law,” Daer said during a speech held at the Plaza del Congreso in Buenos Aires, on the occasion of a general strike. organized against the libertarian, in relation to Milei’s bill for deregulate the economy, reduce state interference and achieve fiscal balancebecause, he asserted, “social justice has not been achieved” and warned: “We will not take a step back.”

“The country is not for sale”, said the leader of the main trade union headquarters in the country, identified with Peronism, on the stage in front of the Congress, where thousands of people gathered, and a general strike was organized from 12 noon (15:00 GMT) until midnight on Wednesday (03:00 GMT ).

Daer told the deputies who have in their hands the draft of the “omnibus law” sent by the executive power, which in the early hours of this Wednesday received the commission’s opinion to bring the discussion to the premises: “We are coming to support them so that the bank will be the people”.

“Not a single representative can be distracted from what we are discussing,” said a member of the health union.

And Daer and the other general secretary of the CGT and the representative of the truckers, Pablo Moyanohe also criticized Milei’s initiatives in the ‘mega-decree’, the Necessity and Urgency Decree (DNU) which came into effect on December 29, but which has labor reform under judicial review.

This reform establishes that union contributions cannot be withheld from the worker without the express consent of the worker, union contributions from expired collective agreements are abolished, duplication of severance payments is abolished and it is stipulated that the severance fund should be used for termination of employment.

Daer warned that Milei’s government is trying to “destroy” the individual rights of workers, collective rights, trade unions and wants to eliminate the possibility of trade unions and trade union activities in times of “great inequality” because “those who want more privileges the most”. have and earn more”.

Moyano said that the businessmen from Techint, Paolo Rocca and Mercado Libre, Marcos Galperíntwo of the country’s greatest treasures.

Miley wants “sell all state-owned companies”criminalizing protest to “put everyone in jail” goes “against culture” and science and aims to “privatize sports,” according to Daer.