The municipal workers of San Patricio del Chañar, grouped in ATE, claim for an employee who, according to them, was suspended for a period of 25 days after an altercation with the town’s vice mayor, Verónica González. After making a cut on Route 7, they were called for mandatory conciliation for this Saturday. At the meeting an agreement was not reached; on Tuesday they will have a hearing with the mayor to resolve the conflict. If not, They announced that the protests would return next week.
After an altercation between a municipal employee and the vice mayor of El Chañar, which led to the worker’s suspension, ATE held a protest on Friday that involved cutting Route 7 to obtain clear answers. The cut was lifted when they received the call for “mandatory conciliation” for this Saturday.
Today, the state union met with the Undersecretary of Labor but they detailed that there was no success. «On Tuesday we have an audience with the mayor, we will see what happens. If we do not reach an agreement we are going to resume the protests,” they stated.
The incident that ATE Chañar denounces would have occurred on Tuesday, in the facilities of the city’s Deliberative Council, when Gónzalez and the woman They met for a meeting and got into an argument in which physical attacks occurred..
The general secretary of the Eastern section of ATE, Ricardo Tabia, explained to Diario RÍO NEGRO that the worker had publicly denounced that a truck, allegedly without authorization, He had removed materials from school No. 364, which is being built in the town.
Tabia explained that the vice mayor called the worker to a meeting at the Deliberante to update her on her situation. It was there that «She realized that our partner was recording her and tried to take her phone, ending up scratching her.«said the union leader.
Due to this altercation, the worker was sanctioned for 25 days. ATE denounced that these are “practices of persecution” by the municipality. Transcendents pointed out, contrary to ATE’s accusation, that in reality the official had been the victim of an attack by the employee.
Court on Route 7 and accusation against the municipality of Chañar: what the vice mayor said
In contact with this medium, González stated that last Wednesday “I entered a complaint for assault and a medical certificate for information on the agenda” of the legislative body, just like a manifesto writing.
He reported that “in the counter-complaint disclosed on social networks It relates to me that my anger is due to the theft of materials from school 364. In this regard, I mention that the intervention of ATE was trying to block the passage of the truck and the police officer explained that they could not carry out such an action«.
«The act was reprehensible and I gave a note on municipal radio, because they manifested a logistics error. And I was part of seeing how they downloaded the material and we consulted with representatives from Upefe,” he concluded.
