He PIT-CNT called the draft “criminal” social security reform discussed by the Chamber of Deputies during the day of strike and mobilization against the key initiative for the government of Luis Lacalle Pou.
“It implies a setback, it maintains a perspective in which the majority sectors of the population are losing rights,” he said. Marcelo Abdalaleader of the union center and added that “the majority of the population does not share this retirement reform.”
For his part, the trade unionist Enrique Mendezwarned that they will “continue to oppose this criminal reform.”
The intersocial He also expressed his rejection “of this retirement reform that harms the vast majority and continues to widen inequalities.”
Instead, the Minister of Labor and Social Security, Paul Mieres, affirmed this morning that the social security reform, which has received half the approval of the Senate and was modified today to unlock its debate in the Lower House, is not detrimental to workers. “If not, I would not agree,” she said in statements to channel 10.
The official also criticized the PIT-CNT and the opposition Broad Front (FA) for opposing the initiative without presenting an alternative. “There was never an alternative document. Opposing something is a cake,” he claimed.
Mieres defended that 80 delegations “of all kinds” were received for the assembly of the project.” “It is much more than the famous dialogue that the Broad Front generated in 2008,” he compared.
Due to the mobilization of the PIT-CNT, traffic was cut off at some points on the Parliament ring road, which caused diversions and alterations that complicated mobility in the area, with major traffic jams in Montevideo.
Teaching and banking unions do not carry out activities due to the measure, while public transport was affected for a few hours.
Source: Ambito
