Mieres pronounced this Wednesday, September 14, on the 24-hour national general strike, ordered by the PIT-CNT for this Thursday the 15th.
The 24-hour national strike called by the PIT-CNT includes a broad protest platform: against the model of inequality that generates increased poverty, insecurity, violence, against the pension reform and the AFAPS. For salary recovery and quality work.
In this sense, Mieres told 970 Noticias that he understands the strike “to the extent that there has been a loss of real wages, not for all workers, but for the majority, and that the union movement expresses itself.”
Not because of scarcity or social security reform
But, he stressed that the fact that a general strike is carried out due to “the famine, which is an increase in inflation, when the whole world is experiencing a price escalation because there is an international situation driven by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, that is not knowing how to understand that the government has no responsibility”. He remarked that the government tries to stop the inflationary process.
He regretted that there is a general strike that harms many people, due to a claim that is “absolutely alien to the will of the government.”
Likewise, the Secretary of State reiterated that it is “very unfair that a strike be made due to a preliminary draft of social security reform.”
“A general strike is made for a draft of the social security reform project that is submitted to analysis. It is something that is still to be defined, it seems incredible to me, ”she sentenced.
