Secretary General of the anti-government CTA splinter Pablo Micheli questioned CFK’s hikes on family allowances considering they fail to meet “workers’ expectations.”
“Any hike is better than anything but this covers no expectations,” the union leader insisted as he considered the national government has big “possibilities” and economic capacity to tackle social needs. CFK’s announcements “resolve nothing”, he affirmed.
“It is only a palliative facing people’s true needs”, Micheli insisted and renewed CTA’s long-standing demands for family benefits to cover “all workers across the country” and not be used for what he calls “a graft and political patronage” system.
«It is workers who end up financing children’s benefits. It is was universal, everyone would receive it,» he told reporters from a local radio station.
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced yesterday a 35-percent hike in on child benefits such as the Universal Child Allowance (AUH in Spanish) and other allowances involving an increase of 8.1 billion pesos in social security funds.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald