The Minister of Labor questioned the decision of the trade union center to paralyze activity to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coup.
The minister of Work and Social Security (MTSS), Paul Mieresquestioned the extent of the PIT-CNT to partially stop on June 27 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coup. The head of the MTSS, who is in Geneva (Swiss) participating in the 111th International Labor Conference, stated in dialogue with Azul FM that “can’t find an explanation” to the decision of the trade union center.
The PIT-CNT resolved to partially stop from 09:00 to 13:00 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the general strike and the coup d’état, with a rally that will begin at the La Teja refinery, from where it will go to a central event on Carlos María Ramírez and Carlos Tellier streets. On this, Mieres indicated that “stop the country, even if it’s for half a day, to commemorate the coup” Has no sense.
Mieres questioned the number of strikes that the unions have carried out so far this year “for issues that have to do with your platform“, and remarked that “there is no better way to respond to the coup than by ratifying confidence in the country and working, pushing to improve people’s living conditions,” he added.
Mieres regretted not being able to attend the act of the Girls of April
The head of the MTSS expressed through Twitter his “full adherence” to the act to “recognize the responsibility of the State for the murders of the three girls in April”, and regretted not being able to attend because he was at the conference of the International Labor Organization (ILO).
“What happened on June 27 was enormously serious.“, and “all Uruguayans have to ratify our democratic conviction” and say loudly “never again to the dictatorship“, said Mieres. “I would have liked very much to be in the claim of the Girls of April,” he said about today’s act.
“These (referring to the act) are much stronger signals than going on strike,” since, according to Mieres, “the trade union movement should not commemorate the coup by going on strike,” since this “is contradictory and does them harm to people, to work and to the growth of the Uruguay“.
Source: Ambito
