2023-05-03 10:30:55
This Monday, May 1, the commemoration of International Labor Day took place, a date on which tens of thousands of workers mobilized in various cities in Colombia to vindicate their historic struggle for decent employment conditions.
The streets and public squares in various locations in the country were the scene in which members of trade unions and workers’ unions recognized the rights achieved over 137 years; however, it was also the space in which cracks within the same workers’ associations and their positions towards the national government were evident.
Proof of this was the speech of President Gustavo Petro, which he carried out from the balcony of the Casa de Nariño, where he took the opportunity to issue some qualifications against the workers who were not fully supporting his management and who did not accompany his intervention in the midst of of the day of protests.
CGT rejects accusations
On 6AM TODAY on Caracol Radio, the president of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), Miryam Luz Triana, rejected the statements of the president and called for respect for difference.
“If we think differently, it does not mean that we are enemies of anyone. This is a democratic and pluralistic country. Qualifiers such as those mentioned yesterday from the balcony where those who were not in the march yesterday were branded as businessmen or who were not in the march yesterday with other adjectives are not good”, said Triana.
In this sense, he explained that the CGT is a “pluralistic and autonomous” organization in which not all of its members are aligned with some type of mandate or way of thinking. However, he said that the natural differences within the organization have become more evident since the death of the leader of this union, Julio Roberto Gómez in 2021.
He also clarified that in the midst of the commemoration of International Labor Day, a group within the CGT marched to the square to accompany the president, as did other centrals, while other members visited the workers to collect their claims.
“Yesterday was a day to talk about our family basket, that our salary is no longer enough to buy it; to talk about the cost of gasoline; to make it clear that we all have the right to give an opinion and not just to give an opinion, we are enemies”, concluded the president of the CGT.
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