He PIT-CNT will meet this Tuesday in conjunction with the executive Secretary of the Uruguayan union center to diagram the next steps to follow for the beginning of the campaign to gather signatures for the plebiscite that aims to modify the social security reformapproved in April, while awaiting the decision of the Wide Front that is still undecided regarding the initiative.
Last week the PIT-CNT approved the ballot for the plebiscite that aims to modify the retirement reform. It was approved in the Representative Table expanded with greater support than the initiative itself, with 44 votes in favor, 4 abstentions and 10 votes to postpone the decision.
In the recent document, the PIT-CNT stated that “individual savings systems for retirement purposes are prohibited,” in reference to the AFAP, by establishing that they must end their activities within a maximum period of two years “from the entry into force of this reform.”
The ballot also proposes that the retirement age be 60 years and establishes that “no retirement or pension may be less than the value of the national minimum wage.” For Marcelo Abdullah, It is about “defending a social security criterion that helps the redistribution of wealth.”
The firmness of the PIT-CNT driving
Yesterday, during Third Congress of the People in the capital’s theater The galponthe president of PIT-CNT He once again defended the plebiscite and assured that he would not be surprised if the editor of the form, Rodolfo Saldainwould be scandalized by the proposal, as would the Pension Savings Fund Administrators (AFAP)the Association of Bankers of Uruguay (AEBU) or the owner of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTSS), Pablo Miereswho were against.
“I was reflecting, beyond the technical problems and processes that must be studied very rigorously, what is the problem of what the labor movement has solved? What a retiree won minimum salary nationall? “Does this also help to overcome the infantilization of poverty, the difficulties of the gurises who are having a terrible time in the settlements and are part of the popular sectors?” Abdala questioned.
Voices against within the union center
Last week several institutions, as well as government officials, questioned the initiative of the PIT-CNT Uruguay to modify the social security reform. One of them was the National Association of AFAP (Anafap) who established that the initiative “seems to be willing to take for the State what does not belong to it, putting the right to private property at risk.”
In this sense, they indicated that “it expropriates the funds that will no longer belong to each person as much as they have contributed, with a future promise of a better retirement, which the same actuarial studies of the B.P.S. They recognize that they will not be able to be paid.”
For its part, AEBU also expressed itself against inactivity by establishing the risks that the plebiscite would indicate, among which are the increase in the deficit in the system, eventual trials to the State and that would affect the equity and justice in benefits.
Meanwhile, Minister Mieres assured that, if approved, the initiative of the PIT-CNT would lead to the collapse of the Uruguayan pension system, gigantically increasing the system’s already very high deficit.
“This reform that is proposed goes in an absolutely opposite direction to the objectives that our country must assume, and that on the other hand the entire political system has recognized as necessary and essential,” said Mieres, and emphasized that the central plebiscite union, furthermore, “would affect asubstantial value that distinguishes Uruguay in the world and what is the Legal certainty on the rights of citizens”, while “it would confiscate the savings of hundreds of thousands of Uruguayans that were collected and built year by year and month by month” with their work.
Source: Ambito
