The CGT achieved a Demonstration of strength In the march for the labor Day, Although there is no indication that the government has accused receiving of the cegetist mobilization capacity and agreed to call Social dialogue. Nor will it help sensitize To the mileism that, after the march, the union dome has received In its Azopardo 802 headquarters to the Buenos Aires governor Axel Kicillof.
This time, unlike other mobilizations, such as the one made on April 8 to accompany retirees to Congress, The union apparatus worked in full and allowed thousands of protesters will compact Independence Avenue from its intersection with Peru, where the main column of the CGT, already throughout some 10 blocks, to Solís Street.
To the strong presence of unions such as the UOCRA, Commerce, UPCN, Health, Truckers, Food, the UOM, UD, LOAD AND DOWNLOAD AND MASTER, among others, the participation of the participation of The two cta and of the piqueteros of the Union of Popular Economy Workers (UTEP).
In addition to the criticism of the Government, the outstanding component of the march was the Tribute to Pope Francis. Throughout independence avenue they settled parade and gigantographies by Jorge Bergoglio, while from the speakers they were heard audios of the late Pontiff, such as the speech he gave in Brazil in 2013 in which he asked: “Make mess!”
But the main moment of the tribute was when, before starting the march, a text by Francisco and the priests Vilros Lorenzo de Vedia and Gastón Colombres were read, they asked for a prayer In his name.
The protesters toured Independencia avenue until they reached Monument singing to work, Located in Paseo Colón at 800. There they were deconcentrated and the leadership of the CGT, to which the leader of the truck drivers, joined the leader, Hugo Moyano, They went to the Azopardo 802 headquarters to meet with Kicillof, The vice governor Verónica Magario; The Buenos Aires Minister of Labor, Walter Correa; the head of advisors of the provincial government, Cristina Alvarez Rodríguez, and the mayor of the massacre, Fernando Espinoza.
The meeting, which had also been held after the worker’s march in 2024, served for several trade unionists to question the government and, at the same time, express their political accompaniment To Kicillof, who spoke as a closing of this suggestive contact.
In the midst of the march, the CGT cotitular Héctor Daer (Health) assured journalism that “Nothing is being negotiated with the government because there is not even dialogue.” “We raised the agenda,” he said, “but We have no response or connection or anything. The agenda is clear, it is not our subject. ”
Warned that “there cannot be a monetary plan that ends up generating Sted and Liberated Prices ” And he pointed out: “We call reflection (the government) because There are issues that we have to solve. We cannot go to an absolutely extractivist country that does not generate added value. ”
The head of the Argentine Federation of Employees of Commerce and Services (FAECYS), Armando Cavalieri, He headed the large column of his guild and also made statements: “The forcefulness of a mobilization of this magnitude states that the organized labor movement and workers throughout the national territory will be attentive to each of the measures that put the countless rights and conquests in check that protect the well -being and future of the working class. ”
Hugo Moyano, For his part, he said that “the working people have to be together to end this situation so serious that we are going through Both the one with work and the one who is without work, the retirees and the majority of the Argentine people. ”
The truckers leader asked to “be more united than ever ” And he criticized that for the government’s security operation “they have stopped more than 100 micros who could not enter the city of Buenos Aires,” but said: “As much as they want to press us or prevent people from getting together, people will join.” And he concluded: “This is a clear demonstration that, If the situation does not change, it will be aggravated. ”
