The union center organized a protest in front of the Argentine embassy next Wednesday in solidarity with the workers of the neighboring country.
In the first month of the government of Javier Mileithe Argentine president presented a Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU) and a project called Omnibus Law, both seek radical changes in the political, economic and constitutional structure of the neighboring country; Faced with this, the PIT-CNTstands in solidarity with the Argentine workers and decreed a mobilization next Wednesday to support them.
Yesterday the union center announced the decision to carry out a demonstration against the measures of the Argentine government and in support of the workers. From el PIT-CNT argue that “Argentine workers are immersed in a complex scenario marked by a succession of government measures that strongly affect the employment, the rights and the freedoms, criminalizing the protest and applying a savage adjustment that falls on the backs of the people.” For this reason, they decided to carry out a mobilization that will take place next week.
“He Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU) and the Omnibus Law presented by President Milei, carry out a series of reforms that not only amount to a de facto constitutional reform, with minimal debate in the Congress, but they delegate enormous powers to the president, trampling democracy and the fundamental values of a rule of law,” the statement added.
In that sense, they also appealed to the reality that there are thousands of Uruguayans who live in the Argentina and that they will also be affected by the measures of Javier Milei. “The privatization of public companies, the disinvestment in education, the dismantling of public services, the criminalization of the protest and labour reform, are some of the gigantic negative impacts of these decisions,” the note details.
Highlighting the idea that the union center has a “long history of internationalist solidarity,” they established that a mobilization will be carried out with the objective of showing solidarity with Argentine unions and workers. The protest will take place on Wednesday the 24th of this month in front of the Argentinian embassy in Montevideo at 1 p.m.
Source: Ambito
