Starting at noon this Thursday, All the oil plants in the country, both large multinationals and national industry establishments, are stopped due to a measure of force in rejection of the treatment of the law Bases and a fiscal package that includes the reinstatement of the wage tax through the restoration of the income tax to the fourth category. They consider it “an anti-worker labor reform and the sale of our nation’s public assets.” “The measure will continue until further information,” the Federation indicated.
The Federation of Workers of the Oilseed Industrial Complex, Cotton Ginners and Related Industries of the Argentine Republic (FTCIODyARA) began a national strike demanding that the Bases Law not be approved in the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation.
The Federation of Oil Producers criticized that “the national government wants to implement a plan that includes, among other negative measures, a regressive labor reform and the auction of public assets with privatizations and delivery of common resources of the Argentine people, together with the Fiscal Package that includes enormous benefits for the richest and the reinstatement of the Salary tax, wrongly called Profits, for the workers that are established there as such. will reach practically all cotton oilers and ginners”.
“It is necessary to emphasize that this project returns from the Senate to the Chamber of Deputies with an even more aggressive character against the working classseeking to limit the constitutional right to strike and enable dismissals and persecution against those who exercise it,” the oil workers stressed.
“Our fight is to defend the labor, union and democratic rights of the entire Argentine working class, and for the Minimum Living Wage according to its constitutional and legal definition that guarantees a dignified life for our families,” concludes the statement published on Thursday.
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