51 years after the general strike against the dictatorship, the workers’ center will march “in defense of work and against precariousness.”
He PIT-CNT confirmed that it will carry out a partial unemployment next Thursday the 27th, in tribute to the general strike of 1973, carried out by the workers against the dictatorship, which will include a mobilization in the metropolitan area.
Among the demands of the labor union appears, in addition to labor-related complaints, the “rejection of illegal investigations against militants of the labor movement,” in reference to the scandal derived from the Astesian case for the alleged espionage of the president of the PIT-CNT, Marcelo Abdala.
The unions assured that the strike will be “in tribute to the General Strike against the dictatorship”, but also to demand “for work and solutions to workers in conflict.”
In a statement, they also demonstrated “against the closure of companies, the precariousness of work and the loss of rights”, as well as “in defense of public freedoms and individual guarantees”.
When speaking at a press conference, the president of the PIT-CNT highlighted that “in homage to a general strike that the workers carried out in defense of the democracy, “The need to respect individual and collective rights will be raised in the mobilization.”
The PIT-CNT expressed solidarity with fishing workers
Among the main slogans of the march towards Plaza Huelga General, Abdullah mentioned the situation of the workers of the fishing industry, who do not work and are not covered by unemployment insurance, in the midst of the crisis in the sector that has been manifesting in recent times.
“And still having been victims of brutal, and truly unjustifiable from any point of view, persecution for a peaceful mobilization in defense of work,” Abdala noted.
Another sector to follow closely was the beverage sector, specifically in the midst of the problems with the workers at the Minas de Minas plant. National Beer Factories (FNC), a conflict in which the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTSS), but remains unresolved.
Source: Ambito
