Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and leaders of the CGT met in a reserved manner to talk about a claim by the Buenos Aires government to the obras sociales, but they ended up talking about the labor reform that he plans to apply if he reaches the Casa Rosada: the presidential candidate explained to them that he wants to promote changes in labor legislation through the negotiation of the collective agreements between businessmen and trade unionists, without any traumatic decision against trade unionism.
The meeting, which took place last week at the Health Union, was attended by Rodríguez Larreta, the economist Hernan Lacunza and the Undersecretary of Labor of the city of Buenos Aires, Ezekiel Jarvis, and the co-heads of the CGT Hector Daer (Healthcare) and Carlos Acuna (service stations) plus managers andres rodriguez (UPCN), Jose Luis Lingeri (Sanitation Works) and Jorge Sola (Seguro), who represent the sector controlling from the labor union.
The meeting was requested by the CGCE leadership as a result of the Buenos Aires government’s claim for a debt of some 600 million pesos for the care of members of union social works in public hospitals during the pandemic. That was the origin of the contact, but obviously everything was discussed. They agreed on the concern for inflation, the increase in prices and the stampede of the dollar, topics in which Lacunza made a diagnosis, with data and statistics that he carried in a folder.
The CGT leadership organized an event for Labor Day on Tuesday, on the Defensores de Belgrano court, but Daer and Acuña, the CGT speakers, avoided questioning the Government and even the Health leader attributed the current economic crisis to the combination of the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the drought. Before Rodríguez Larreta, the unionists were encouraged to criticize.
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