The Association of Hierarchical Personnel of the Natural Gas, Derivatives and Related Industry (APJGAS), headed by Rubén Ruiz, expressed the importance of being part of the second general strike called by the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) for this Thursday the 9th.
“In order not to continue losing rights, possibilities and perspective, we stopped the country. It is not a desperate cry. It is a sign of coherence. We don’t give ourselves away. We do not surrender. On May 9 let’s stop the machine so that the country is not for a few,” highlighted by the APJ GAS Board of Directors.
Through a press release, they detailed the different reasons for joining the general strike. First, “because we must defend ourselves” They point out and continue: “because we do not want to be all precarious, in its monotributista version”.
At the same time, they emphasize that they defend the “conquered labor rights” that “They are not a gift from anyone and they ensure a minimum level of decency in the daily struggle that exists in labor relations.””. Furthermore, they reject that retirements continue to be an adjustment variable, which “condemns the workers who support the system in systematic poverty”.
Regarding the return of the Income Tax proposed by the government of Javier Milei, they maintained: “for the umpteenth time, we say, salary is not profit”. Likewise, they expressed: “We oppose tax injustice being law. While large companies benefit from fabulous exemptions, active and passive workers are punished without shame.”.
“We are not willing to abandon the principle of energy supply to our people under the mantle of saving exports, whose economic results will remain in the hands of a few.”they maintained.
Neoliberalism
Among various reasons for going out to fight this May 9, they also mentioned that they do not validate the delivery of natural resources and strategic companies under the argument that conditions will be created for long-term investments. “We have already suffered this policy several times and it brought us here”they assured.
“Changing this country does not mean handing over the levers of power to a small number of large companies so that they destroy national sovereignty and the perspective of expanded and sustainable social justice,” stood out.
Meanwhile, the union entity recalled that workers are the ones who produce wealth, while the national government intends to consolidate unsustainable levels of poverty with the pretext that the market will regulate the imbalances. “We also experienced this policy on various occasions and it brought about situations of terrible inequality“, they noted.
Along the same lines, they shouted: “We do not want neomenemism. We already had that poisonous dose in its original version that left 20 million poor and a dangerous individualistic vision that still persists in a perverse form.”.
“We know that savagely adjusting the weakest to say that they are lowering this corrosive ‘tax’ is false and leads us down a dark path. “We workers are not suicidal or naive,” they affirmed.
Finally, the union maintained that “no government has the right to deceive us” in reference to the policies carried out by President Javier Milei. “The anger, the confusion, the frustration also brought us here. There are no excuses. We believe it is necessary to rebuild collective self-esteem and the Nation project without ambivalence. “We workers have a responsibility in that path,” they concluded.
