In parallel with the strike that is taking place throughout the country, this afternoon he entered the Buenos Aires Legislature a project that proposes declare as essential service he passenger transport in the City to limit the impact of strikes. If approved, it would affect collectives and subways.
The project proposes to declare as “essential public service, to the service of collective passenger transport that have a route entirely within the territory of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires”, whose provision corresponds to the Federal District Tariff Group. And it would also cover rail transportation of surface and underground passengers of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.
Yamil Santoro proposed declaring “essential” the bus and subway service in the City
The proposal establishes that, in the event of interruptions derived from labor disputes, guarantee a minimum benefit of the service to prevent the population from being left without mobility alternatives. “In general terms, the aim is to have a minimum benefit that avoids total interruption,” Santoro explained to this medium.
Among the arguments that the project points out, they affirm that The paralysis of public passenger transport services “transcends the field of bilateral labor relations” and “significantly affect the daily lives of ordinary citizens” Therefore, they consider “it is necessary to implement the most suitable means available to harmonize the serious conflict of interests at stake.”
The project does not specify the minimum percentage that unions should guarantee when implementing force measures. Santoro clarified that this will be “left to the Executive” given that “it depends on a series of sectoral calculations, schedules, densities, lines.” “It is not a homogeneous issue,” he said.
On the other hand, he proposes leaving in the hands of the Law enforcement authority possible sanctions that would be applied to those who fail to comply with the minimum service guarantee that would be imposed through its regulations.
The project was presented this afternoon, within the framework of the massive union action in the sector at the national level. About him unemployment, Santoro stated that there is “a part of unionism that does not understand that Argentines vote for something else and expect something else,” in clear rejection of the measure of force.
“Without discussing the reasons or what is claimed, They continue to adopt methods and forms that are from the past, that go against other Argentines and that contribute to us all living worse.“, continued the legislator and closed: “If they continue like this they will end up extinct like the dinosaurs, because they are obsolete.”
Nation moves forward with the declaration of essential services to the aeronautical sector and education
The proposal of liberal legislator follows the path taken by the national government of Javier Milei to limit forceful measures. It is worth remembering that last month the Executive power declared the declaration as essential service of the aeronautical sector to contain pilot strikes demanding better salaries.
In practice, the change obliged the unions to inform five days in advance of each of the force measures adopted and, in addition, they had to guarantee a minimum provision of 50% of the service. The regulations generated rejection among the aeronautical union authorities, who went to the Justice to prevent its application by “unconstitutional” by affecting the right to strike.
The judge Ricardo Hierrezuelo, member of the Labor Court No. 42accepted a proposal from the Air Line Pilots Association (APLA) and issued a precautionary measure that suspends decrees 825 and 831 for three months. The ruling only covers members of the union.
The national Executive also promotes, together with allied blocks, a project that declares education as ““Essential Strategic Service”in order to guarantee 180 days of classes in the country’s public schools and prevent students from losing school days due to teacher strikes. In August, The initiative obtained half a sanction in Deputies.
The project was supported by Freedom Advances, he PRO, the UCR and allied blocs of the ruling party such as the MYoD, CREO, Independence, Production and Job, and Buenos Aires Libre. The bulk of Union for the Homeland and the Left Front reject the project.
Source: Ambito
