Buenos Aires City public employees from ATE union have called for a strike and a rally tomorrow against the decision of Mauricio Macri’s administration to deny workers a year-end bonus.
They will gather at noon in Avenida de Mayo avenue and Piedras street downtown and then walk to the Economy Ministry and the headquarters of the City’s government to demand payment of a 4,000 pesos bonus.
“We know that the salary raise agreed in collective talks was not enough,” ATE said in a press release. “Inflation is accelerating and it has a greater effect on the pockets of those who earn the least.”
The local government has confirmed that there will be no bonus for the City workers, despite several provinces having already promised one. “We are in complete agreement that inflation is hurting salaries,” said the City’s Treasury Secretary Néstor Grindetti yesterday. “But the fact is we don’t have funds.”
Source: Buenos Aires Herald