The first institutional blows appeared, after the complaints for gender and workplace violence presented by affiliates -and affiliates- of SEOM. Late on Wednesday, it was announced that the chiefs of the questioned area had been removed.
“Based on the situation of public knowledge exposed by Road Protection personnel, the Municipality of Rafaela decided dismiss the five coordinators from their duties of said area, so that the investigation process develops with total normality, in search of the rapid clarification of the facts, ”said the brief message.
On Tuesday, the Union of Municipal Employees and Workers held an assembly and the delegates decided a strike for this Tuesday the 25th. After this, the DEM activated a protocol, but claimed to have no details of the complaints.
More than one hundred SEOM delegates They participated in a women’s assembly in which recurring acts of gender violence and discrimination that occurred in the Road and Community Protection Area were addressed.
Headed by Anahí Raffaelli, Deputy Secretary of SEOM; and Eloísa Torreano, Union Secretary; The meeting held this Tuesday took place under a hybrid modality, with the presence of all the delegated workers of Rafaela, and the virtual participation of the representatives of Esperanza, San Vicente and the 45 communes attached to the union.
Complaints
In addition to the strike decreed for next Tuesday, April 25, those present signed a formal request that will be forwarded to the executive, legislative, and judicial spheres, in which the union organization declares “to have received repeated complaints from the group of women who work within that area, on situations of abuse of power, gender inequality and fear installed that paralyzes the compañeras and leaves them in a place of extreme vulnerability. The testimonies, audios and recordings collected refer to situations of workplace, psychological, symbolic and sexual violence.
situations have been detected exclusion and barriers that make normal labor development impossible from the group of compañeras, who are displaced and unable to make use of certain resources, such as the use of vehicles or the possibility of working overtime. In the same way, health care has been dismissed, not attending to and ignoring the lack of inputs and the need to generate a real change that makes it possible to carry out work tasks within a dignified and caring environment from a comprehensive perspective.”
The first testimonies and their seriousness must have been such that they led to the suspension of these four men and one woman.
