The national drive of the Automotive Tramway Union (UTA)who leads Robert Fernandezconfirmed the 48-hour strike for this Wednesday the 12th and Thursday the 13th in the interior of the country in demand for the payment of the salary increase. The decision was confirmed after the meeting between the passenger transport employers and the Tranviarios Automotor Union at the Ministry of Labor, in what meant the last-minute attempt to unblock the wage conflict and the forceful measures launched by the union that brings together to the drivers.
“The 48-hour strike will take place Wednesday and Thursday after the failure of salary negotiations with companies of short and medium-distance passenger transport from the interior”, assured the union leader after the meeting.
Fernández maintained that the union exhausted all previous negotiation instances to “not harm the 9 million users who use the services daily”, although he stated that the businessmen “deny the agreement and do not pay the increase”.
“The UTA will fight for the implementation of the salary increase for workers in the interior and therefore adopted union action measures. The union demands compliance with the agreement, in the same way that it carried out state efforts at the time to agree on the increase in wages. salaries for AMBA staff,” explained the trade unionist.
He also argued for the need to fulfill the premise of “equal pay for equal work” for workers in the interior of the country, and demanded “a greater commitment and participation of the rulers and the Interior Ministry, which ultimately are the ones that should focus on the definitive resolution of the conflict,” Fernández concluded. The union’s national press secretary, Mario Calegari, clarified that the general strike in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) was left out of the protest.