2023-07-07 02:00:00
Through a statement, the Automotive Tramway Union (UTA) reported this Thursday that the transport service will be interrupted by the measure of “task retention” in certain specific jurisdictions, beginning at 12 midnight on Friday, July 7. So the collective strike will affect areas of AMBA, La Plata, Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Santa Fe, Formosa, Misiones and Tucumán, as specified by the union organization.
Within this framework, the union pointed out that a situation of non-compliance “in certain companies of AMBA, La Plata, Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Santa Fe, Formosa, Misiones and Tucumán“, in whose areas “tasks will be withheld” for failure to pay the salary increase.
“We retain” -they reported- “tasks starting at 00 hours tomorrow, Friday, July 7”.
However, the situation is not identical in all the cities and provinces of the national territory.
Indeed, the transport will work normally in the jurisdictions of Bahía Blanca, Catamarca, Chaco, La Rioja, Córdoba, Comodoro Rivadavia, Jujuy, La Pampa, Mar del Plata, Mendoza, Neuquén, Río Negro, Rosario, Salta, San Juan, San Luis, San Nicolás de los Arroyos , Santa Cruz, Santiago del Estero, Trelew.
Previous statement from the UTA
Prior to the issuance of the most recent statement, the Automotive Tramway Union (UTA) had ratified this Thursday, July 6, the strike announced yesterday. In addition, a sector began with the measure of force as of Thursday, July 6. The claim is made for the non-compliance of the companies in the increase in wages.
In this context, it had been reported that the lines affected since 4:00 p.m. are the following: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 28, 31, 44, 50, 51, 56 , 57, 74, 76, 79, 84, 91, 99, 101, 107, 108, 117, 135, 146, 150, 161, 164, 168, 177, 188, 263, 271, 299, 370, 373, 384 , 385, 388, 403, 405, 421, 429, 435, 503 San Vicente, 514 Almirante Brown, 520 Lanús.
The DOTA group, the dissident sector most critical of the UTA and of the management of the union’s general secretary, Roberto Fernández, accused the leader in a statement of “negotiating wages downward” and of “imposing a serious migration of workers to other better paid activities.
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“We get tired of repeating that a national union must negotiate for the whole country and not just for the metropolitan region of Buenos Aires, where Fernández not only fails to sign an agreement – after promising that if he did not get a salary agreement he would leave the union- but it can’t even enforce the increases granted by the State”, says the statement signed by Miguel Bustinduy and Osvaldo Agrafogo.
The statement in which the UTA announced measures of force for Friday
In a TAU statement released Wednesday, titled “We will not admit to being hostages of the service problem”the entity ratified “the validity and enforceability of the Joint Resolution that set the salaries for workers of the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, as well as the salary agreement reached with the FATAP for the personnel of Short and Medium Distance Passenger Transport of the Inside the country”.
In turn, they stressed that the differences between the business sector and the enforcement authority are “completely unrelated and independent of the wages of workers represented, who cannot and should not wait for regulatory provisions, agreements, surrenders, etc. to receive his assets”.
UTTA statement.
“We will not allow workers to be held hostage to service issues”sentenced the union organization.
By virtue of the foregoing, the statement ends with the requirement of “compliance with both the aforementioned Joint Labor and Transport Resolution, as well as the agreement reached with FATAP”, while warning that “if the aforementioned instruments are not complied with by obligated companies, Tasks will be immediately withheld from 00:00 on Friday, July 7 of the current“.
On the morning of this Thursday, the spokesperson for the Presidency, Gabriela Cerruti, He had reported at a press conference at the Government House that the Labor and Transport ministries were going “to work all day” to avoid the bus stoppage scheduled for tomorrow.
From the Ministry of Transportation that the national State paid 27 billion pesos this week to the companies providing the service, 6500 million pesos more than the previous month. “This is a sufficient increase to pay for the salary increases of the workers who must collect their salary on the fifth business day of the month,” they said from that portfolio.
The official information indicates that this advance includes the updating of non-salary costs, such as fuel, tires, insurance and maintenance of the system to April values.
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In June, the business sector and the union had reached a salary agreement
On the last Thursday, June 22, the Automotive Tramway Union (UTA) had announced the lifting of the collective strike called for Friday the 23rd in the interior of the country, after having reached a agreement with company representatives.
That Thursday a meeting was held between the companies and the union to bring positions closer together with the Ministry of Labor.
“We inform that the salary agreement has been signed with FATAP for the workers of the Short and Medium Distance Passenger Transport of the Interior of the country, according to the same conditions as those resolved for compañeras and compañeros from the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires”the union reported in a statement.
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