The leader of the Corriente Clasista y Combativa (CCC) left-wing political group, Juan Carlos Alderete, assured that during tomorrow’s national strike “there will be 160 pickets across the country in response to the government’s abuse against workers.»
Likewise, Alderete said that “at least 16 pickets or roadblocks will be held in Greater Buenos Aires suburb areas.»
In conversations with a radio station, the picketer justified the strike, stating that «it hurts to see how the government mistreats and punishes workers and how it lies to us.»
«It hurts to see how the inflation hits on us all. How the health and education systems are deteriorating. So, be aware that tomorrow’s strike is not only because of salary claims but for the most urgent needs.
“The only thing the government has done is permanently disqualify workers and this causes lot of anger within in the labor movement» Alderete said and added: “The labor movement has to be at the service of the workers and neither to a government nor employers.»
“This government, which speaks constantly about the workers or the “labor aristocracy” as they have called teachers, should really take a deep look on what it’s doing. The State itself has unregistered workers, whose wages, in some municipalities, are below 2,000 pesos a month, money with which it is impossible to live.»
Furthermore, Alderete remarked “It causes a lot of anger to see the level of corruption within the government, or how public positions are filled with friends, children, relatives, girlfriends, lovers, etc, and they give themselves exuberant salaries.”
When we speak of La Cámpora [Kircherism youth movement], the government says to be teaching them on governance, but the salaries they earn are inconceivable. But one has to be at the bottom of the production line seeing how each month our salaries go to taxes. »
«Many of the members of this government went from being middle-class to form Argentina’s new-rich class», Alderete concluded.
Meanwhile, CTA’s umbrella union leader Pablo Micheli told reporters this morning that “pickets have always existed”, and added, “So I recommend that those who still want to go to work tomorrow, better do it before the roadblocks start.”
“If there’s a national strike, it should be understood as what it is: a strike. So please understand that we can’t just stay at home saying how bad things are going, we have to do something, we have to claim for our rights.”
Likewise, Micheli, who planned the strike along with the CGT Labour Confederation led by Hugo Moyano and will also count with the support of the Blue&White CGT umbrella union headed by Luis Barrionuevo of the Restaurtant workers’ union, and the Argentine Agrarian Federation, remembered that there are “many unions that totally agree with our claims but instead their leaders spend their time visiting government’s officials.”
Source: Buenos Aires Herald