The CGT meets to analyze organizational details of the march that will take place on August 17 from the obelisk to Congress to demand urgent responses from “the political class in the face of the socio-economic crisis” and denounce “the speculative maneuvers of sectors of economic power”.
The meeting takes place from noon on the fourth floor of the historic Azopardo building at 800.
According to advanced this Monday to Télam Andrés Rodríguezdeputy secretary, leaders of the unions that make up the national board of directors will participate and not the general secretaries.
For his part, the General Secretary of the Canillitas union, Omar Plaini, assured that the march of the CGT “is firm” and maintained that in this concentration, the workers’ union will pronounce itself against “against the concentrated sectors of the economy that lobby” to increase prices.
“The march is firm. Today there is a meeting to organize the mobilization of August 17 with the intention of demanding that the concentrated sectors of the economy stop lobbying to increase prices,” Plaini told El Destape Radio. .
This Monday, Plaini participated in a meeting that leaders of the Federal Workers Current (CFT) held with Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in the National Senate.
Also present at that meeting were the truck driver Pablo Moyano, mechanic Mario Manrique, number two of Smata, and the tanner and former national deputy Walter Correa, according to official sources.
“We agree with Cristina (Fernández de Kirchner) who it is impossible for a country to advance with the current levels of informality”Plaini assured.
The meeting between this union sector and the Vice President took place minutes after the head of the Upper House met with the national deputy and future Minister of Economy, Production and Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Sergio Massa.
“We wanted to talk with the vice president about worker issues: health, employment and child allowance. We need an Argentina with production, employment and development,” said the trade unionist.
Finally, Plaini argued that the government must “reorient itself” today, beyond the changes made with the arrival of Massa.
“The most responsible people in our coalition have to be strengthened,” concluded the trade unionist.
Meanwhile, at 4:00 p.m., it is expected that the Chief of Staff, Juan Manzurreceive leaders of the workers’ union at the Casa Rosada, according to the Government.
In the act of next August 17, the board of directors, which co-leads Hector Daer, Carlos Acuna and Pablo Moyanowill read “a document with a clear and net political cut”.
The Central of Argentine Workers (CTA) of Hugo Yaskywho ratified the need to “win the streets” against speculators.
