A week after the railway workers union The Fraternity will announce a stoppage of activities For the entire day of Wednesday, December 18, the Government made official that a mandatory conciliation and the trains will work normally.
The statement of Ministry of Human Capital reported that “through the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security; dictated mandatory conciliation following the announcement of the train stoppagebased on the orders filed by the companies Railways and Metrovías, as established in current regulations”.
“The conflict began after the Fraternity Union will confirm a total strike for 24 hours starting at midnight this Wednesday, which will not be effective based on the measures dictated by the Secretary of Labor within the scope of their competence,” they point out.
Finally, the document states that “the parties were summoned to a conciliation hearing next Thursday, December 26, a period until which they are prohibited from taking any retaliation or forceful measure.”
Strike: the claim of railway workers
The announcement of the force measures for Wednesday, December 18, was also made through a statement, but signed by Omar Maturano, head of the La Fraternidad guild. “The stoppages of our activity are not nice. Neither for those who suffer from it, nor for those of us who carry them forward, but it is the only legal tool that workers have when our claims are not attended to,” it was clarified at the beginning of the document.
In this framework, they detailed that “companies and government officials degrade the purchasing power of salaries, recognizing only 1% in November and 2.5% in December 2024 as a ‘gift'”.
Later, they understood that “the Government violates democratic principles and aims to demonize forceful measuresto put the users against the workers, agitating the struggle of poor against poor through the media.
The text ended with a message of analysis of the political situation: “While we observe that The political opposition is confused and directionless, the workers we are and will continue to be on alert“, guarding the authentic values and achievements inherited from our doctrine and for the working people.”
Source: Ambito
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