2023-07-07 12:53:20
Al bus stop that had been announced yesterday, was added a surprise stoppage of the Sarmiento train and there are also subway lines, such as A, with delays, as reported Alejandro Gomel at the opening of Modo Fontevecchiaby Net TV and Radio Perfil (FM 101.9).
It is a situation that is affecting the entire country, but that is felt particularly strong in the AMBA.
From Modo Fontevecchia mobiles, Corina Paset y Bruno Ghiso they were able to speak with citizens to reflect first-hand.
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In the Once station you could see the lowered blinds as a result of the stoppage of hierarchical personnel on the Sarmiento line, which they carried out a cut at the height of Castelar.
“Nobody says anythingI have to get to the hospital because I am a cancer patient and there is no information, I have been traveling since 4 in the morning and I have the drugs here, if I do not arrive they will lose their cold”, said a citizen consulted from the Modo mobile site Fontevecchia.
“Unfortunately, I lost the day of work,” said another man, lamenting the day’s discount for not being able to get to his place of work.
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In the Floresta area, the anger of many users who got up with the news that the train was not running, that joined the well-known bus stoppage.
People expressed frustration at having encountered the surprise measure of the train’s senior staff, since they had that means of getting home as an alternative.
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Claudio Mardones analyzed the behind the scenes of the collective strike
The first sign of the characteristics that today was going to have arose yesterday, starting at 4 in the afternoon, when the Blue List of the Argentine Tramway Union, which has great influence on the Dota line, they started the strike.
After 5:00 p.m., the announcements began at the bus stops thatfrom 00hs, the formations were not going to arrive.
The back room has to do with the pulling of the subsidies that the Ministry of Transportation was going to deliver to finance the increase in the parity. Finally, they deposited a total of 27 billion pesos. what it represented 10 billion more than usualto finance a part of the increases.
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The other issue has to do with the retroactive of the previous months, since the parity was agreed.
In the midst of this tussle, the Ministry of Labor approved the salary scale, which obliges the companies to pay these increases, to which the companies responded that they were going to pay it to the extent that the funds for subsidies are released.
According to the spokespersons for the business chambers, the funds transferred so far are enough to pay for this month’s increase, but not the retroactive amounts or the part that directly impacts the Christmas bonus.
On the other hand, the enormous compliance with the strike throughout the country speaks of the salary arrears suffered by workers, especially with the companies that owe those amounts.
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Fernando Meaños explained the reasons for the strike in Sarmiento
Regarding the train stoppage, Rubén Pollo Sobrero, the general secretary of the Sarmiento line of the Unión Ferroviaria, explained that the measure taken in Sarmiento, which left hundreds of thousands of people unable to moveit was not a measure of them but of the hierarchical personnel.
We are talking about supervisors and bosses who have very high salaries, in some cases 600 thousand or 700 thousand pesos.
“Sarmiento railway stoppage, we inform that the measure carried out belongs to the hierarchical personnel, that is, supervisors and bosses, APEDEFA for violation of the collective labor agreement, we sympathize with the colleagues although we consider that they should have warned in timeSobrero tweeted.
Stoppage of the Sarmiento railway, we inform that the measure carried out belongs to the hierarchical personnel, that is, supervisors and bosses, APEDEFA for violation of the collective labor agreement, we sympathize with the colleagues although we consider that they should have warned in advance
– Ruben Dario Sobrero (@PolloSobrero) July 7, 2023
If Sobrero says “we believe that they should have warned in time”, you can imagine the enormous damage caused by this surprise decision by senior staff.
With respect to subsidies, it is striking that this situation has come to be, in which if the government does not issue the subsidy, the company cannot put the buses on the street because cannot pay the wages of the workers.
The Association of Automotive Transport Companies regularly publishes what is called the “Bondi Index”, which is the comparison between how much the ticket is currently paid and the value it should have if the subsidies did not exist.
As of May 2023, the average ticket price today is $31and the State puts, on average, 170$ per ticket. According to the businessmen, the ticket should cost $329 if there are no subsidies.
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We are at that level of distortion, because for more than 20 years there has been a decision that the bus ticket be subsidized. Another key issue is that the subsidies be to companies and not to users. These millionaire funds do not go directly to those who have to travel and cannot pay for the full ticket.
Today the ticket implies less than 10% of what it should cost for the system to work correctly, salaries can be paid and updated properly, and the company can have its profits.
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Kelly Olmos affirms that the measure it is an employer lockout. That what the companies do is blame the Government, when the Government put up the money.
The companies say that the money did not arrive, that the Government has not sent the money, and in the meantime, the workers are on strike today.
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In the discussion in Congress last year, it was already possible to anticipate that this situation could explode.
There is a fact to highlight. Progressively since January, the price of transport has been rising according to inflation, which in different categories is already worth more than $50.
In addition to the cost and the amount of subsidies, another element of the equation is the useful life of the units, because a good part of the vehicle fleet is deteriorated and already has exceeded its useful life. That is one of the claims that is heard in the transportation heads of the entire country.
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The parity payment is another critical moment that increases all tensions. Part of this discussion had been crystallizing 20 days ago, when the Ministry of Labor closed the parities and published the salary scales.
At the moment of paying them, the composition of this equation on how the price of the ticket is composed and what are the costs of maintenance and salaries to make the system work.
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