This Monday the bus cooperatives Coetc and Ucot are carrying out a cessation of activities as a protest measure against the fact that a driver was stabbed during his service; on the other hand, they demand a meeting in the Ministry of Interior.
The Trade Union Association of Cooperatives and Transport Workers (Ascot) called a strike, accompanied by the Coetc and Ucot bus cooperatives, which will last until Monday night and began this Sunday at the end of the day. It is expected that it will resume service this Tuesday between midnight and early morning.
From Ascot they demand that their security be guaranteed against the constant robberies and attacks on drivers who ended up detonating with the attack on a driver of the G line. “Given the attack suffered by a colleague being stabbed on Line G, we will make a STOP in all the Cooperative’s services,” said the union’s statement published this Sunday night. “Life comes first” highlights the proclamation.
On the other hand, they insisted that the association will urgently request a meeting at the Ministry of the Interior to discuss this issue with the portfolio leader, José Luis Heber, which would take place this Monday at 6:30 p.m.
Security measures in Uruguay
He Ministry of Interior will present in the coming weeks 16 measures to improve safety in Uruguay, regardless of the fact that the document has the signature of the other political parties that were critical at the dialogue table that the portfolio called a few months ago.
The draft is already ready and, after Minister Heber gives his approval, next week it will be delivered to the political forces, according to the coordinator of Targeted Police Crime Prevention Strategies of the Ministry of the Interior, Diego Sanjurjo, to the country Although initially there would be 15 measures, one more was finally added to the document, a “strengthening” of the National Directorate of Support for the Released (Dinali)of the Ministry of Development (Mides)after conversations with the minister Martin Lema.
Likewise, the gender-based violence prevention plan that came in the original document was replaced by a more “ambitious” alternative: a “prevention educational program for primary and secondary education, that provides information on different types of crimes and violence, and trains children and adolescents in resilience, positive skills, and youth leadership,” explained Sanjurjo.
For the coordinator of the Ministry of the Interior, most of the measures that will arrive in the final document will have the support of the political parties. “A lot of effort was made to meet everyone’s demands”he stressed, in that sense.
Some of the measures already have an assigned budget or will have money from international organizations, but at least two would go to the Account surrenders. One is linked to mental health, specifically to the implementation of a comprehensive care plan for officials and their families. Another is for addictions, focused on those deprived of liberty. Both are in line with what the president has already announced Luis Lacalle Pou about the bill’s focus on mental health and addictions.
Source: Ambito
