The head of the Argentine Industrial Argentina (UIA in Spanish), José de Mendiguren, referred to the ongoing discussion between businessmen and workers over the profit share bill project and said that “the President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner never filed the project or said no to the initiative.”
Likewise the lobbyst remarked that “All she (Fernández de Kirchner) said is that it must be debated between our sectors (businessmen and workers).”
On radio conversations, Mendiguren evaluated “I don’t think for any reason the President, knowing her and her personal history, will be in favour of the business sector and against the workers. I just see her trying to bring some order the house”, and then aimed his canons to the national government and remarked, “What concerns us is the income distribution. Sharing company profits is just another tool, but if the income distribution improves then we (businessmen) will have more market to land on. But if salaries are no good, then we can’t sell anything.”
In that sense, de Mendiguren wondered: “Where is the greatest delay in terms of income distribution in Argentina? Is that within the formal sector? No, it’s not. It is all in the informal sectors. If that’s the biggest propblem, let’s work all together –State, workers and businessmen– to put an end to unregistered work.”
To end, the lobbyst remarked: “The companies that are legal have to deal with a totally unfair competition coming from the unregistered sector in which employers only register a quarter of what they pay to workers. I don’t see the CGT Labour Confederation worried about that.”
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