An important group of union leaders from the CGT and the two CTAs carried out this Tuesday his complaint against the labor reform and the economic reform of Javier Milei to the summit of the International Labor Organization (ILO), which is taking place in Geneva. Businessmen, laborers and government representatives also met there.
It was in this framework that the representative of Argentina, the ambassador Carlos Foradoricrossed strongly to Roberto Baradel, the head of the SUTEBA teaching union and member of the Workers’ CTA, who, when speaking at the assembly of the international organization, accused the libertarian government of promoting policies that in his opinion “have destroyed labor administration and employment policies in general.”
And even harder he spoke of a “economic and social plan” in “clear violation of the Argentine constitution”, which – according to what he said – the Legislative Branch ignores. “A series of decrees, resolutions, provisions and administrative decisions have multiplied and spread that, analyzed together, constitute a systematic plan to change the pattern of accumulation that benefits the most concentrated sectors of the economy and systematically violates rights and social guarantees that enjoy the highest constitutional protection.”
Baradel was not the only union member who took his complaint to Switzerland, since a group of lawyers traveled to the 112th ILO summit to denounce Milei’s policies as “anti-constitutional and anti-union”. In fact, the general secretary of International Relations of the CGT and head of the UOCRA, Gerardo Martínez, who participated in the plenary sessions, also raised his voice. Martínez called the Government’s labor reform “precarious and anti-union.”
“Through a DNU, the Executive Branch, without consultation with social actors and civil society, without resorting to the Legislative Branch, intended introduce the most regressive labor reform since we recovered democracy“, Martínez accused. And he added in the same line of the critical discourse: “A precarious and anti-union reform with the sole purpose of imposing a set of economic policies and structural reforms that damage living conditions and restrict the exercise of union freedom.” .
But it is known that Ambassador Carlos Foradori does not let one pass and that he is in Geneva to stop the various complaints that also in terms of human rights are sought to be opened against the administration of La Libertad Avanza before the human rights organizations that operate within the framework of the UN, there.
With instructions from the Government, he responded this Tuesday to Baradel telling him that he had unsheathed a “complete catalog of inaccuracies linked to the Argentine government”, among them, that 60 percent – according to the leader of Suteba – were informal workers.
“I come to say that the distinguished representative of education workers in Argentina is right. The inherited economy meant that my country was on a rocky road and was about to reach the precipice. I’m going to add other indicators. Last December 10, when the new government took office, Argentina looked like a pathetic photograph. 50% poverty, 10% indigence and inflation, which at wholesale prices, was 54% monthly.”
Foradori also highlighted, in that sense, as “worse”, the fact that “children; the most precious thing in Argentina, are mired in absolute poverty and what is more serious, in saddest educational poverty”.
Then he said that in one of the provinces in the south of the country, the number of classes they had in primary school last year reached 80 days over the 190 they should have had. Many other provinces have had a similar and regrettable educational record. It is deduced that she was talking about Santa Cruz.
“After this legacy, what the Argentine government is doing, from its humility with firmness; from his sensitivity with audacity and from his prudence with courage, is to implement a therapeutic strategy, to cure the pain with justice and the frustration with all the trust of millions of Argentines, who last October, put together with the ballot of the vote, the hope for a better future.”
Likewise, The complaints against Argentina brought together the union world that traveled to Switzerlandwhere the group of representatives of Argentine workers is headed by the co-head of the CGT, Héctor Daer, Martínez, and the labor lawyer Marta Pujadas, among others.
There they brought to the debates the fact that There must be guarantees for the right to protest, to strike, to freedom of expression and dialogue as a conflict resolution mechanism.
The Secretary of Labor, Julio Cordero, will also participate in the summit over the weekend. About a hundred union representatives traveled, but the Government only authorized no more than five people to participate in the ILO summit, whose expenses are financed by the State.
