In addition to being a date of memory, they plan to join the demands of the beverage and fishing sectors.
With several issues to complain about, the PIT-CNT considers calling for a general strike this June 27 during the anniversary of the 51 years of the hit of State in Uruguay; Among the claims, in addition to being a commemorative and memory date, is the espionage of the president of the union center, Marcelo Abdalaand to union problems in the fishing and drinking sectors.
In two weeks we will celebrate the 51st anniversary of coup in Uruguay which began the last civil-military dictatorship that the country suffered during 1973 and 1985. As of this date, the union center is analyzing the possibility of carrying out a general strike within the framework of several demands.
The leader of the Antel union and the PIT-CNT, Gabriel Molina He assured that the measure of force will be “In defense of democracy” and that it has already been proposed to all unions for evaluation. In addition to the memory of the coup d’état, the union leader stressed that there are other claims that must be remembered in the strike, such as the alleged espionage of Marcelo Abdala and political pressure on prosecutors.
On the other hand, it would address some union demands that have not progressed for weeks. Among them, the beverage sector, specifically the workers at the Mines of National Beer Factories (FNC) and the police repression suffered by fishing union protesters last week during a mobilization.
The PIT-CNT denounced “acts of espionage” by the government before the ILO
Yesterday the PIT-CNT denounced “acts of espionage against the president of the union center” before the International Labor Organization (ILO)following the recent knowledge of the “illicit monitoring” carried out by the former head of presidential security Alejandro Astesiano to Marcelo Abdala, and that Luis Lacalle Pou I was aware of it.
The general secretary of PIT-CNT, Elbia Pereira, who heads the delegation of the union center in Geneva, Switzerland, took advantage of his speech before the 112th Conference of the ILO to give a public and global account of the recent events known in the country. There, he denounced the “acts of espionage” against Abdala, in reference to the investigation that Astesiano carried out after the union member had an accident in 2022 due to drunk driving.
The problem was that said investigation was carried out “illegitimately” and by a person who did not have said powers – a custodian – who, in addition, used state resources for it, such as the police and the cameras of the Ministry of Interior. The situation is even more serious because the president was aware of these movements, as recorded in a WhatsApp conversation included in the book by journalist Lucas Silva.
In his speech before the ILO, Pereira denounced this and other aspects of the Lacalle Pou government. “The government of our country carries out actions that threaten the syndical freedom in a broad sense, sanctioning public education union leaders for exercising their right to freedom of expression, unilaterally modifying the medical certification scheme generating the reduction of salaries of large sectors of State workers, violently repressing peaceful demonstrations and carrying out acts of espionage against the president of our union center,” said the general secretary of the PIT-CNT.
Source: Ambito
