The Automotive Tram Union (UTA) confirmed Wednesday that On Tuesday, May 6 there will be a collective strike for 24 hours that, in principle, would affect some 300 lines that circulate through the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires (AMBA). Hours later, it was learned that sectionals of Córdoba and the city of Santa Fe will adhere to the force of force that will be effective after concluding mandatory conciliation, while In Rosario at the moment there was no concrete definition.
From Uta Rosario they maintained the expectation of a normal transport of transport in the city next Tuesday, although They would expect definitions after the next hearing between the UTA and the chambers of the sector before the Ministry of Labor of the Nationscheduled for Monday to try to unlock the salary discussion.
Specifically, UTA’s claim, from the business sector they stressed that “companies that provide urban passenger transport services by automotive in the interior of the country are not found today in economic or financial conditions to face salary obligations that have minimal sustainability conditions.”
In turn, from UTA they indicated that they are “in the face of an unjustified delay in the salary increase agreement, despite having the time for this, without a salary response by the Business Federation,” and added: “There is a clear dilatory attitude on the part of the companies, which seem to pretend even more their own duties.”
According to UTA Secretary General, Roberto Fernández, business chambers offered “for the months of February, March, April, May and June a remunerative increase of less than 6%, to be paid as of June.”
In addition, from the guild they described as a “lack of respect” the proposal of non -remunerative sums of $ 40,000 for May 26, $ 50,000 for June 16 and $ 70,000 for July 15.
In the case of Córdoba it was confirmed that unemployment will only affect urban passenger transport, and the representatives of the Argentine Federation of Transporters by passenger car (FATAP) pointed out that the “current crisis panorama” makes it impossible “formulating any offer to the union sector.” “The difficulties that interior operators experience to fulfill the previous salary agreements remain in force, which is sufficient sample of the extremely complex situation that the transport of the interior experiences at the moment,” they said.
The salary discussion and the announcement of the force measure take place within the framework of the exit of the Cordobés Franco Moguetta of the Ministry of Transportation of the Nation, which was formalized on Tuesday. Instead, Luis Pierrini, a Mendoza businessman of the insurance item who has no experience in transport management.
The now praised former official had authorized in recent days a new increase in groups of groups and subtes in the AMBA, determination that began to govern last week, and failed to bring positions in the joint negotiation that involves the business chambers and the UTA.
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