The relationship between Hugo Moyano and his son Pablo became tense again, a fact that puts the entire unionism in a state of tension. Last week, before a small group of close friends, the leader of the Truckers Union expressed his unusually hard against the wayward co-head of the CGT, to whom recriminates have aligned with Kirchnerism and the left to promote the mobilization before Congress against the Bases Law, which once again involved the labor union in fracture airs.
Papa Moyano still has a bad relationship with Paul. They could not repair the relationship that was damaged, through shouting, when 3 years ago her son recriminated the role of his wife, Liliana Zulet, in the acute financial crisis of the trucking social work in her capacity as owner of the company that is in charge of its management. Now, those who know the Truckers boss know that he does not share his eldest son’s decision to return to encolumnar behind the strategy Cristina and Máximo Kirchner, although he maintains his strong repudiation of Javier Milei’s policies. But the veteran leader continues to detest La Cámpora and distrusts the former Vice President: he feels that He never gave him the place that he has in unionism (and it also did not give him places on the candidate lists in 2021 and 2023).
Hugo Moyano is a strategic ally of the dialogue sector of the CGT, confronted with his son, and already replaced Pablo in several union meetings when the prestige of the Truck Drivers acronym was at stake. The union leader does not speak in public on this very sensitive topic, but it gives clear signals. That’s why he revived his political party, the Party of Culture, Education and Work (CET), of repeated electoral setbacks, to dispute spaces in the PJ against Kirchnerism and La Cámpora and appointed as the new head of the group “Huguito”, another of his sons, a labor lawyer and Secretary of Legal Affairs of the Federation of Truck Workers (a national organization that Pablo has not been a member of since December 2021 after having been displaced by your father).
So that there are no doubts, while Pablo threatened to break the CGT due to his call unilateral and without consultation to mobilize before Congress, “Huguito” posed 48 hours ago with the Secretary of Labor, Julio Cordero, within the framework of the International Labor Organization (ILO), in Geneva, where the libertarian official organized a tribute to the fallen Argentineans in the Malvinas with the suggestive presence of other union leaders (the dialogue Gerardo Martinez and the moyanista Cristian Jerónimoamong them) and businessmen such as the head of the UIA, Daniel Funes from Rioja.
Could Moyano’s son, director of the trucking federation, be in a photo with a high-ranking representative of the Government without his father’s endorsement? “He asked him to be there,” someone very close to the experienced union leader slipped in. It is believed that he did it in part to make him uncomfortable to his son Pablo and partly as gesture of gratitude to Cordero for his decisive role in the reformulation of the trucking joint venture, last April, which was unlocked thanks to the good will of the former Techint lawyer in accepting a “drawing” of the increase figures in order to prevent it from appearing to exceed the guideline of the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo and, at the same time, allow the workers they will charge the same the increase of 45% for March and April. A staging that left everyone happy.
Last Thursday, in the midst of Pablo Moyano’s explicit fight with the Government over the Bases Law, Hugo Moyano signed a salary agreement of the Truck Drivers Federation for the June-July-August quarter that is in line with what the Ministry of Economy wants: the increases of 5%, 4% and 3% for each of those months, plus a remuneration sum for July and August. It was a positive signal towards the Casa Rosada: the increases are decreasing, in tune with the downward inflationary forecasts. The important is that It is a key parity that can serve as witness case for other union leaders who are negotiating their salary increases.
Pablo Moyano’s strong commitment to call for last Wednesday’s mobilization before Congress contrasted with the strident silence from his father about it. Hugo Moyano was internalized by his colleagues from the dialogue faction of the CGT that his son had chopped up just to carry out that concentration. That I didn’t give an opinion on the matter sounded like disavowal of Pablo’s move in tandem with the unionists K. Even the head of Truckers endorsed the decision of the small table to leave leeway to the unions to decide whether or not to join the street rally. And he also supported the counteroffensive of the dialogueists of the CGT to leave him alone to his son and activate calls to regional so that they would not go to the headquarters of Azopardo 802 to the event that took place on Monday, June 3, where Pablomoyanistas and Kirchneristas called to mobilize against the Bases Law, with the presence of old enemies of union orthodoxy such as the Trotskyist Alejandro Crespo, head of the Tire Union (SUTNA) or the metrodelegate K Néstor Segovia.
Everyone opposes the government of Javier Milei, but they have very different looks about how to deal with it. The moderate of the CGT, which includes “los Gordos”, such as Héctor Daer, and the independents Andrés Rodríguez (UPCN), Gerardo Martínez (UOCRA) and José Luis Lingeri (Obras Sanitarias), plus allies such as Sergio Romero (UDA), Jorge Sola ( insurance) and Julio Piumato (judicial), among others, sought to frustrate the Bases Law so that the libertarians agreed to dialogue, but they had managed to soften the labor reform. The most fraction combative, in which Pablo Moyano and unionists loyal to Kirchnerism such as Mario Manrique (SMATA), Abel Furlán (UOM) and Sergio Palazzo (bankers) are active, wants to start a total war against the President to wear it out.
Why did the dialogue sector not want to march to Congress, even though it opposes the Bases Law? On the one hand, his adherence to the protest would have broken the secret bridges built towards the Government to start a stage of dialogue. On the other hand, joining the street rally in front of the Senate would have given him more strength to Pablo Moyano and approached Cristina Kirchner and if there is one thing this union alliance does not want, it is to end up being functional to the strategy of the former Vice President, her political enemy.
Gerardo Martinezone of the strategists of the dialogue sector of the CGT, participated in the annual ILO conference with two speeches full of criticism against the Milei government and the third one he gave, after being re-elected as a member of the organization’s Administration Committee, had a tone conciliator: “No political force will be able to solve structural problems alone,” he stated in a nod to libertarians, after which he said: “We continue to commit to an agenda of dialogue.”
Last Thursday, the Secretary of International Relations of the CGT gave his last speech in Geneva at the inaugural forum of the Global Coalition for Social Justice, an initiative by the Director General of the ILO, Gilbert Houngbo, in which 290 representatives of governments from around the world, companies, unions, financial and academic institutions participate, and which included the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as main speaker. There, Martínez gave encrypted messages for the Milei government: “We need a democracy with social justice, incorporating fundamental rights, tripartite dialogue as an instrument and master key to resolve the serious problems, but that this tripartite dialogue be institutionalized. What I mean by this? That it is not discretionary based on the will or decision that the official on duty may have.”
The stage was left installed in Argentina for the Government and the majority sector of the CGT to now try some instance of dialogue. He wants to promote it Lamb from the Ministry of Labor, with the ILO as guarantor of the negotiations, and it is expecting the moderate wing of unionism with signs such as not having mobilized to Congress and speeches like Martínez’s.
In the CGT, in any case, they expect some reunion imminent of the dialogueists and Pablo Moyano to establish a truce in the internal fight. The Truckers leader was politically wounded after, embracing Kirchnerism and the left, he promoted a march that ended with acts of violence, while his Cegetista rivals left unscathed of that intolerant postcard.
They have a difference that will be decisive for the next stage: Pablo Moyano and the K unionists they reject outright the Bases Law, but the dialogue sector, although it does not want that initiative either, seems satisfied with the scrapping of the “labor modernization” by Milei, to which the Government agreed to eliminate 42 articles to accommodate the opposition and, above all, unionism.
He admitted this to Infobae the deputy secretary of the CGT, Andres Rodriguez (UPCN): bluntly, he said that the labor union did not take to the streets on Wednesday because “many of the negotiations that modified the spirit of the labor reform and public employment “They were achieved through negotiations.”
At that point probably Hugo and Pablo Moyano match: The project approved by the Senate included in the labor chapter, at the request of the UCR bloc, an article that penalizes union blockades by considering them “serious labor injury” as grounds for dismissal with cause. The addition regarding the version of Deputies it doesn’t worry so much to the dialogue wing of the CGT, which does not usually use blockades to protest, but aims directly at the heart of the Truckers’ Union, which turned this extortionate modality into a trademark that torments SMEs.
