This Friday, the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and the Buenos Aires suburbs woke up with a bus stoppage which affected seven lines that make their journey in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA).
The strike was due to a wage claim by the workers of the Ersa Groupfrom the companies of collectives Ersa Urbano and Micro Bus Saavedra SATACI.
Collective strike this Friday: companies reached an agreement and the measure was lifted
Despite the forceful measures, the companies reached an agreement with their employees and the cessation of activities was lifted after 12 noon this Friday. In this framework, it is expected that the bus service will operate normally next week.
The lines that did not work for a few hours were the following:
- 19
- 133
- 140
- 153
- 184
- 253
- 321
Guillermo Francos vetoed the return of transportation subsidies
After the dissolution of the Interior Compensation Fund, which regulated transportation subsidies and allowed the price of bus tickets to be supported, Franco reiterated that it is not in the Government’s plans to revive it.
On the subject, the former Minister of the Interior said that “there will be no national subsidies for provincial transportation.” “These are provincial issues, which the provinces have to resolve. We can discuss, and we are always open to doing so, the national tax system and Co-participation. Surely our Government will have a proposal to reformulate the national tax system,” Indian.
In that vein, he said that “we cannot declaim federalism and ask for subsidies from the Nation” and explained: “Federalism implies that the province collects its taxes and receives other national taxes that are from Co-participation and uses them for the management of the province. If each Whenever he needs it, he asks the Nation for subsidies, a system is generated that is a hieroglyph“.
