The president of FFOSE assured that this action represents a “dangerous precedent” and that workers have the right to protest.
Federico Kreimerman president of the Federation of OSE Officials (FFOSE)
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The directory of the National Administration of State Sanitary Works (OSE) decided to initiate a summary to the president of the Federation of OSE Officials (FFOSE), Federico Kreimerman, due to the smoke bomb placed in the central building during a demonstration, a decision that came after the accusation by the prosecutor Gabriela Fossati.
Three months ago, in mid-June and while SBI opened the envelopes tender for Arazatí Projectalso known as Neptune, FFOSE He was holding a demonstration outside the building in rejection of the initiative that involves the construction of a new drinking water plant. During the protest, Kreimerman lit a smoke bomb inside the central building.
After this, at the request of the prosecutor Gabriela Fossati, who stopped joining the public ministry since the beginning of this month, the assigned prosecutor Fabiana Corbo was in charge of the hearing to formalize the accusation against the union leader who was accused by the crime of especially aggravated attackwhich contemplates a penalty of between three months in prison and three years in penitentiary.
The summary and the response of Kreimerman
The directory of SBI voted unanimously – including the representative of the Wide Front – to begin with a summary against the union leader. From OSE they assured that their objective is to clearly establish the degree of Kreimerman’s responsibility in the events.
Faced with this, the president of FFOSE He assured that “summary voting for union leaders based on union mobilizations seems like a dangerous precedent to us, as does the judicialization of the protest.”
In that sense, Kreimerman stressed that workers have the right to give their opinion “not to co-govern “as you want to say, but yes to give your opinion on the spending of hundreds of millions of dollars of the money of all Uruguayans,” regarding the Neptune project.
With this, FFOSE held a demonstration this Thursday against the completion of the Neptune projectas well as opposing judicial and administrative measures against the president of the union.
Source: Ambito
