Leaders from the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA) and the CGT Labour Confederation clashed once more over the revenue sharing bill. UIA’s head José Ignacio de Mendiguren said “this isn’t the right time to debate it,” while CGT lawmaker Héctor Recalde replied that they have waited to pass it “for over a year.”
“In a moment like this what we must do is try and bring calm to the economy instead of upsetting it more than it already is due to external factors,” de Mendiguren assured.
“This bill aims at having unions involved in co-management and I do not agree with that at all. This isn’t about revenue sharing, it’s about union co-management, which means that unions will get a say in budget approval and that, to me, is abusive.”
Recalde replied to de Mendiguren’s statements, and assured that “the moment to discuss this is now, since we’ve taken it slowly and we introduced this bill over a year ago.”
He also rejected that the CGT is looking to achieve union co-management. “Not a single article in the bill mentions co-management, even though it is our constitutional right to demand so. We should all rally behind this,” he concluded.
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