Pope Francis posed with union members in defense of Aerolíneas Argentinas

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He Pope Francisco This Wednesday he agreed to be photographed with Argentine union leaders who visited him in the Vatican and who displayed a flag in rejection of the privatization of Argentinian airlinesin the middle of the debate of the Base Law that takes place in the Senate.

The Supreme Pontiff received the Secretary General of the Argentine Association of Aeronauts at the Holy See, Juan Pablo Breyand the head of health and labor legislation of that same union, Horacio Calculli. “This company not only represents a symbol of national pride, but plays a crucial role in the connectivity and economic development of the country”affirmed the union leaders.

According to union sources, the meeting with the Pope took place within the framework of a Vatican program “aimed at solving the problem of food and its consequences on children from 0 to 12 years old, which was joined by unions, NGOs and businessmen.” . The project is developed “through the archbishopric of Buenos Aires in homes of villas and dining rooms” in the city of Buenos Aires and the Buenos Aires suburbs..

The defense of Aerolíneas Argentinas as a state company reached the Vatican during the same day in which, paradoxically, the ruling party removed the company from the list of companies to be privatized, at the beginning of the debate on the Bases Law in the national Senate.

“Aerolíneas Argentinas guarantees that all regions of the country have access to air transport, which is vital for the economic and social development of remote areas and regional economies”Brey and Calculli agreed anyway before Pope Francis.

In addition to the Aircraft Workers, representatives of the Association of Tax and Public Revenue Employees (AEFIP), the Union of Mechanics and Related Automotive Transport Workers (SMATA), the Ceramist Workers’ Federation of the Argentine Republic (FOCRA), the Argentine Union participated in the meeting. of Rural Workers and Stevedores (UATRE), the union of Luz y Fuerza, Employees of the Glass and Related Industry (SEIVARA) and the Association of Automotive Dealers of the Argentine Republic (ACARA).

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