The UGATT warned that Uber does not have a CUIT and violates both labor and tax laws, for which reason it demanded the cessation of its activities
By Alejandro DiBiasi
12/05/2023 – 07,20hs
The board of directors of the General Union of Transport Workers Associations (UGATT) is determined to confront application companies of any kind “for not respecting labor laws”, while warning that “technology can never be against workers”. On this occasion, the organization targeted the company Uber, demanding that Enacom (Communications Entity) “block the use of the application” throughout the national territory, taking into account that it does not have CUIT, so it does not pay taxes. , among other irregularities.
The General Secretary of UGATT, Omar Maturanoargued that “just as we ask for the regulation of applications that abuse delivery workers at work, we must also look at passenger transport applications, which operate illegally and we have been denouncing for a long time, without anyone taking action on The issue”.
He affirmed that “without CUIT, the company engages in illegalities regarding labor legislation and does not provide the necessary tools to its workers to be able to carry out the activity as dignified Argentines are used to” and reiterated that “in the name of technology or an alleged advance, abuse against workers cannot be justified and the workers”.
Must comply with labor and tax laws
Maturano stated that “we are aware that the new technologies they magnify the concentration of profits; but in Argentina there are union organizations so that they comply with the laws, both labor and tax” and questioned “the audacity of the transnational vivacity that does not know about flags, does not know about family and does not have a faith to guide them”. also Secretary General of the union of train drivers, La Fraternidad, closed by recalling that “within the law everything, outside the law nothing.”
For her part, the National Federation of Taxi Drivers He recalled that “for years we have been demanding that the situation not only of Uber be regularized, but also of other applications that do not compete on equal terms with our benefit, because they do not pay taxes or apply labor rights to workers.”
The General Secretary of the Federation and the Union, Jose Ibarra, repudiated “the collaboration of Mauricio Macri government officials with Uber to avoid paying the taxes and contributions that they would have to pay from 2016 to date” and warned that the business model “unfortunately will expand to other activities if it is not urgently put a stop to it.”
Unions demand that Enacom block the operation of Uber
He also explained that “in the area of the city, we continue to demand that the Government of Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, but in the national order they do not take action on the matter either and thousands of workers who do not have any legal support are left to the good of God”.
He stressed that Uber “advanced in the city of Buenos Aires, even on legal refusals with the arrogance of an illegal company, as it is today” and warned of the damage they do “to a public activity, such as the taxi service, fully regulated where everything that must be contributed is contributed, in taxes, and social contributions”.
The uberization of the labor market
According to Ibarra, “the most unfortunate thing about this whole situation is that the Uberization of work is contagious and we already have five more Apps running in different cities, in our sector, and they extend to different activities”, pointing to product delivery applications, although without mentioning them
He clarified that “we are not against the generation of jobs, but we reject labor exploitation, that the staff does not have a collective agreement; that he is in an irregular way without receiving vacations or Christmas bonus, that he does not have a social work and that taxes are evaded that affect the whole of society”.
The also head of the 62 Peronist Organizations once again asked the President Alberto Fernandez that “suspend the activity of digital applications dedicated to passenger transport, until they are regulated accordingly, to compete on an equal footing with our activity and end this unfair competition, and thus fulfill the promise of not allowing Uberization of work in our country”.
