The Uruguayan Health Federation (FUS) will be on strike this Wednesday in support of the workers of the former Galicia House and the partial veto he imposed Luis Lacalle Pou to the law that guarantees that the labor credits owed to them are paid.
Within the framework of the session at the General Assembly in the Parliament to debate whether or not the veto agreed by the Executive power to the law that ensures payment by the workers of the former Galicia House to labor credits, the FUS will carry out a strike from 8 in the morning until 3 p.m.
The FUS, which brings together the workers of the private healthcalled for a rally in the Obelisk and then march to the Legislative Palace and wait at the bars while deputies and senators make a decision. In addition, they will hold an event at the doors of the public building.
To this measure is also added the Medical Union of Uruguay (SMU)which called a strike of 12 to 15 hours with the aim of accompanying the workers affected by the closure of the mutual company by court order in 2021. The SMU was also against the veto of the law.
The session keys
The general Assembly announced that it will hold an extraordinary session this Wednesday with the objective of debating the partial veto imposed by the Executive power to articles 1, 2 and 3 of the law to cover the labor credits of workers of former Galicia House.
Previously, the Wide Front had raised a motion presented to the president of the General Assembly to hold an extraordinary session on the 28th of the current month, an initiative that was approved by several senators and deputies of the Parliament.
This decision corresponds to article 138 of the Constitution which establishes that, in the event that a bill has been returned by the Executive power with total or partial objections or observations, “the general Assembly and it will be up to what the three-fifths of the present members of each of the Chambers decide, who may adjust to the observations or reject them, maintaining the sanctioned project.”
For the partial veto to be lifted, three fifths of the quorum present at the time of voting. “This generates some calculations that are difficult to predict without knowing the attendance of the legislators. But understanding a chamber where all the legislators are, 78 votes are needed to lift the veto exercised by the President of the Republic. It will be a vote tight,” explained the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Sebastian Andujar.
Meanwhile, the former Minister of the Interior and current senator, Luis Alberto Heber He announced that he will be on the side of the Executive at the time of the vote. “He blacksmithing He will support the president’s position, always. We are the main force of Luis Lacalle Pou, who is a great president, and we are going to argue in general Assembly“he remarked.
The objections of the Executive Branch
Last week the president Luis Lacalle Pou defined the partial veto for the law approved in the Parliament which establishes coverage by the State for the labor credits of more than 1,000 former workers of House of Galicia, that remained pending payment after the closure of the health center.
The decision to partially veto the initiative, resisted by former workers, It materialized last Friday and has to do with the articles that refer to the planned funds since the approved solution implies a disbursement of about 30 million dollars, while the government proposal proposed an expense of 8 million dollars.
In a meeting with representatives of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) and the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, the president analyzed economic and justice reasons and defined the veto, considering that some of the former workers have already obtained employment or received a subsidy for unemployment. It is worth remembering that the project of Wide Front was validated by the Senate by 19 to 20 votes thanks to the support of Town meeting, as well as two senators from National Party and one of Colorado Party.
The text contemplates more than 1,000 people laid off and considers that the payment of labor loans to former officials must be financed with the employer insolvency fund, with a limit of 105,000 indexed units, of about 611,000 pesos. At the same time, it provides for the creation of a job bank to which State Health Services Administration (Asse) and private health providers will have to go when they want to hire staff.
Source: Ambito
