The unions that bring together the public and private unions of the province demonstrated this Thursday in front of the provincial Congress against the retirement reform. The demonstration takes place before the Chamber of Deputies discusses the law that obtained half a sanction in the Chamber of Senators, but would include some changes to the original project.
“We are very concerned because there is an attempt to reform the retirement system by talking about the deficit in the Fund,” explained the general secretary of Amsafé, Rodrigo Alonso. And he stressed: “We must discuss, because the deficit that exists now is a momentary deficit.”
Alonso stressed that “most of this deficit” has to do with funds that the national government has not contributed since President Javier Milei’s administration began. And he warned: “The government, to reduce that deficit, does not have to adjust the workers. What you have to do is demand that the national government send the more than 700 billion that it owes to the province of Santa Fe.”
According to Alonso, the budding reform would imply that a teacher “who is 65 or 68 years old is teaching at the initial level and in first grade,” which “does not reflect the educational quality that the province speaks of.”
“The retirement system should not be touched. What needs to be done is to demand that the Nation send what is appropriate and carry out a tax reform so that the people of Santa Fe have more resources and with those resources the people of Santa Fe have a more dignified life,” insisted the head of provincial Amsafé.
For now, the reform itself is not discussed, but the first step to do so was taken with the vote of 18 of the 19 members of the provincial Senate: the creation of a commission made up of the three powers to work on the issue. As explained in the Upper House, the Fund in January, February and March reached a deficit of $61 billion, to which is added the Nation’s debt, which reaches $750 billion.
In this context, Governor Maximiliano Pullaro was definitive: “We are defending the rights of the province’s future retirees. The Caja’s problem is getting bigger. The injustice of those who are not public employees maintaining privileges must be corrected.”
“If the unions want to mobilize, I agree that they should do so, because it is their role, but I have to govern for the almost four million Santa Fe residents,” challenged the head of the Gray House.
