Tuesday May 2, 2023 | 4:50 p.m.
The General Confederation of Labor (CGT), which met for Labor Day, called for a political agreement and a reduction in working hours, in addition to supporting the renegotiation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and targeting the libertarian Javier Milei .
Héctor Daer, Carlos Acuña and Pablo Moyano were the speakers at the event, which took place at the Defensores de Belgrano Club, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Núñez, and to which the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, was invited, but did not attend because he traveled to Brazil with President Alberto Fernández.
“Both for the present and for the future they have a common denominator: to implement a great political, economic and social agreement that promotes and strengthens a true and permanent alliance between production and work, the only sustainable formula to guarantee inclusive growth with social justice”, indicates the final text of the workers’ union.
Regarding the labor reform that the entity seeks, the document states: “Trade unions in general and Argentina in particular take the lead in discussing a model of labor relations that places us in a world that debates the reduction of working hours work as a means of generating more employment and better distributing the extraordinary profit of capital”.
For the CGT, the statements that say that “collective labor agreements are anachronistic and static” are “false” and adds: “Thanks to the dynamics of collective bargaining, workers and employers have a space for sectoral agreement that has shown of reasonableness and evolution of working conditions, but also of production”.
Debt with the IMF
Regarding the imminent renegotiation between the Government and the IMF, the triumvirate asked for the recreation of the dialogue to build “ten state policies aimed at boosting the productive economic potential that Argentina has” and continues: “We all know that the photo of the situation current situation is very different from the x-ray of our country”.
“No one can resign themselves to believing that the material conditions in Argentina are 40% poverty and levels of inequality that conspire against the necessary social cohesion. Designing a sustainable development model and carrying it out today requires a condition of the first order” , argues the CGT in clear support for Massa, who is shaping up to be one of the possible presidential candidates of the Frente de Todos.
Along these lines, the communiqué highlights: “It is urgent to rediscuss the deadlines and guidelines for the conditions on the debt services committed to the IMF. Fundamental economic variables, exogenous to the current administration, underwent changes that altered the conditions that inspired the original negotiations”.
