The Central Council of the Uruguayan Banking Association (AEBU) will make a 24-hour strike throughout the country next Tuesday the 25th in rejection of the social security reform in Uruguay and in defense of Bank Box.
This is a new measure of force by the union, which has already taken this measure on previous key dates in the vote on the pension reform promoted by the ruling party, with the president Luis Lacalle Pou to the head.
AEBU assures that the reform “implies that two out of three workers will have Losses in your retirement or pensions ” and that “the increase in the retirement age will have an impact on employment, both among young people and among older people”.
It also states that the project “deepens the personal savings system by incorporating the Caja Bancaria into the regime of AFAP”. “This implies, at the same time, dissolving the solidarity distribution system of our Fund and causing a cost of more than 2,000 million dollars that all Uruguayans will pay,” said the union, which also called on the workers “to surround the Legislative Palace” that day.
The reform of the pension system will begin to be discussed on Monday in the plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies after it was approved in the Special Commission last Thursday. The debate will continue the following day, but it is expected that it will achieve the necessary votes to be definitively sanctioned.
general transport strike
The National Union of Workers and Transport Workers (Unott) announced a 24-hour general strike in rejection of the social security reform project.
The decision ratified this Friday was made, however, a month ago, when Unott joined the general strike of the PIT-CNT on March 23 and announced that it would take other forceful measures when the project was discussed in the Lower House.
From the organization they affirmed that the different unions that make it up will each define their form of participation. While some will adhere from the early morning shifts until Tuesday nights, others will even stop from Monday night.
In addition, the measure will cover all branches of the transport urban, suburban, metropolitan, interdepartmental and international. And, in turn, there will be concentration and mobilization in the surroundings of the Legislative Palace.
Source: Ambito
