This Monday, workers from the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) mobilized and blocked Paseo de la Reforma to demand respect for their rights labor before the imminent extinction of the organ and denounced that they are in the work uncertainty, “Because we don’t know anything.”
For more than two hours, between slogans and banners, the workers bet at the height of the Senate of the Republicwhere authorities of the Ministry of the Interior, Those who requested to release the lanes with the promise to establish a dialogue table with the agency, however, they refused and were later received by the Technical Secretariat of the Board of Directors of the Upper House, to whom they delivered a letter where they detailed their requests for their extinction.
In an interview with The Universal, Gonzalo Trejo Amadorspokesman for the IFT Workers Committee, accused that in the face of the absorption of the Institute by the Digital Transformation and Telecommunications Agency and the new regulatory body, the laws do not establish clear definitions for respect for their labor rights and no dialogue tables have been displayed to carry out an orderly transition.
Before IFT extinction, workers protest in the Senate; They accuse that there are no dialogue tables for a transition. Photo: Hugo Salvador/El Universal
Before IFT extinction, workers protest in the Senate; They accuse that there are no dialogue tables for a transition. Photo: Hugo Salvador/El Universal
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“In the transitory of the law, a specific table for the transfer of personnel is not established, there is no specific resource for liquidations and there are no conditions for them to speak of a transfer of both the staff and the institute to the organs that absorb it,” he said.
In that sense, he reproached that “today we do not know our employment situation” and said that mobilizations precisely seek to give clarity and transparency in the transfer process.
Regarding the performance of the IFT Plenary before his disappearance, Trejo Amador considered that “what they do is not enough, because there should be more demand on their part in order to guarantee our labor rights.”
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On the other hand, he warned that if after the extinction the current IFT workers are not contemplated, “the Mexican State will lose a very important human capital, very specialized in communications and regulation, so we are stated that this capital is used by the digital transformation agency and telecommunications.”
Before IFT extinction, workers protest in the Senate; They accuse that there are no dialogue tables for a transition. Photo: Hugo Salvador/El Universal
Before IFT extinction, workers protest in the Senate; They accuse that there are no dialogue tables for a transition. Photo: Hugo Salvador/El Universal
Among some of the points of the Petitioner Pliego The requirement of the payment of settlements and liquidations under the next termination of the labor link, the creation of a human resources transfer committee, with representation of all levels of the IFT, which guarantees the legality, transparency and respect for the rights of the working persons.
They also ask for clarity and certainty about the authorities that will be in charge of terminating the Institute staff and a dialogue table with the IFT, the Digital Transformation Agency and telecommunications and the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit to attend particularities.
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Before IFT extinction, workers protest in the Senate; They accuse that there are no dialogue tables for a transition. Photo: Hugo Salvador/El Universal
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