“There are no better salaries, nor the right to protest”complained the union leader, upon learning details of the new protocol against blockades and pickets at companies and factories.
Last Friday the national government made the measure official through the Resolution 893/2024 published in the Official Gazettewho created the “Unified Command for Productive Security”with the specific objective of “carrying out tasks aimed at preventing and controlling order in the country’s productive enclaves.”
This measure, it was explained, creates a special security force intended to “protect” oil, grain and mining companies from blockades and union protestswhich generated concern and unrest in trade union organizations, such as the one that brings together miners, but also oil workers.
After learning of the decree, the leader of AOMA Hector Laplace considered that it is about “a new step towards the removal of rights, in this case the right to demonstrate, which can only be achieved through repression of workers.”
“AOMA repudiates this arbitrary and violent decision, which is reminiscent of the darkest times in our Argentine history. The years of struggle, expansion of rights, and improvements in the working conditions of the working class cannot be erased with a signature, much less with a stick or rubber bullets,” Laplace emphasized.
Along these lines, the union leader and CGT member assured that “This is in addition to a systematic attack on the pockets of the Argentine people, with adjustments, limits on collective bargaining, increases in food, transport and services, and the restoration of income tax.”
Laplace emphasized: “There are no better salaries, nor the right to protest. Milei is acting in the best military style.”
The leader of the mining union organization indicated that “here you will find us, as every day of our years, supporting the struggle of our colleagues, for a decent salary, a quiet life, in peace, and without being trampled while the sectors of power fill their pockets. We will continue to fight for a country with social justice, in our workplaces and in the streets with the people.”
Source: Ambito
