The General Confederation of Labor (CGT), held this Tuesday an act to celebrate International Workers’ Day, in which CGTE leaders they avoided slipping any criticism of the government, they targeted the opposition, and they condemned the dollarization proposed by the libertarian leader Javier Milei.
The union referents expressed their opposition to the labor reform proposed by Together for Change (JxC), although they did ask to discuss the reduction of the working day. The event organized by the CGT It began at 2:00 pm, “before some 20,000 people mobilized by the unions,” they said.
Some union leaders were not present, such as the co-owner of the CGT Pablo Moyano, from the Truckers union, the metallurgist Abel Furlán, the representative of SMATA Mario Manrique and Omar Plaini from Canillitasall referents of unionism K. However, another of the referents of unionism Kirchnerist, the banking leader Sergio Palazzo, did score the present at the event.
For the closing of the act, the leader of Health Héctor Daer, spoke of inflation and poverty, although without directing any criticism of the government, for which he justified the current crisis in that “Argentina is a socially impoverished country due to the pandemic”. “We are living with a process of inflation, the product of the living who take advantage, remark and do not allow the recovery of wages,” said Daer.
The trade unionist dedicated some paragraphs of his speech to criticize the opposition, particularly Mauricio Macri and Javier Milei, by expressing “Enough of irresponsible people who talk about blowing up everything, or a little”. He ended by haranguing “military the triumph of Peronism” and not giving “not even a stride of advantage to the right that comes for our rights.”
