The Secretary for International Relations of the CGT and head of the Argentine trade union delegation at the 111th International Labor Conference (CIT), which has been deliberating for three days in Geneva, Switzerland, Gerardo Martinezdemanded this Thursday before the world delegates of the tripartite labor body “a change in the global financial architecture.”
When presenting on behalf of the workers, Martinez called for “a change in the global financial architecture, especially with respect to the leading role that the International Monetary Fund (IMF)“, affirmed the leader before the labor assembly.
“Given the realities observed in the last decade, workers demand a change in the global financial architecture, especially in the leading role that the IMF. The increase in inequality, precariousness, informality and poverty impede the progress of developing countries, “said the leader in his speech.
The head of the Construction Workers’ Union (Uochra) and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Labor Organization (ILO) also maintained that during the serious coronavirus pandemic the labor movement requested that “vaccines be a social good for the entire population, but nobody listened to the message.”
“He IMF it is a body with a very bad reputation in developing regions. Hence the demand for a change in the global financial architecture,” he pointed out.
Martínez called for a “new social contract”
The union leader, as every year, spoke at the ILO Conference on behalf of the Argentine labor movement, and emphasized that “it is time to generate a new social contract that offers answers to the urgent economic, productive and social demands”. and noted that workers require recovery proposals “on the basis of an approach based on rights and social progress.”
“The trade union movement promotes the transition from informality to formality and a future of work with a guaranteed social and labor protection floor. Education is central to the inclusion strategy. It is not possible to talk about work without education. Workers cannot they are afraid of modernity and technological changes,” he said.
Martínez added before the representatives of the world of work in the world tripartite labor body that, however, “the facts show that the benefits are not shared”, for which he demanded that “investments offer employment from a regulatory State that compensates the costs of the transition”, for which reason he ratified the need to agree on a new social contract, the leader emphasized in his speech.
“The data for the Americas region are alarming. Their economies are facing a complex external scenario, marked by low growth in economic activity and world trade. According to ECLAC projections, an average growth of 1.2 is estimated %, insufficient for the recovery to reach everyone,” he denounced.
Martínez also argued that more than 50% of the population “is in a situation of poverty and suffers permanent violations of freedom of association and limits to collective bargaining, which is why respect and compliance with fundamental rights and principles is required.”
Source: Ambito
