The national leadership of Automotive Tramway Union (UTA)who leads Robert Fernandezconfirmed the 48 hour stoppage of this Wednesday and next Thursday in the interior of the country in demand of the collection of the salary increase already agreed, informed the union.
Fernández confirmed in a statement that the workers will paralyze the tasks for two days before “the ffailure of salary negotiations with the Business Federation of the interior of the country (Fatap)” in the labor portfolio of Avenida Callao 114.
“The 48-hour strike will be fulfilled tomorrow and thursday after the failure of the salary negotiations with the short and medium distance passenger transport companies in the interior, and will begin this midnight,” assured the union leader.
Fernandez argued 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 comply with 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 governors and the Ministry of the Interior, who are ultimately the ones who should focus on the definitive resolution of the conflict,” Fernfández concluded.
The union’s national press secretary, Mario Calegari, clarified that the general strike will not take place in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA), while the union maintained the previous week in another document that “the workers are in the middle of a dispute between the provincial governments and the national State over who should be in charge of the last parity salary agreement”, for which he ratified the general strike.
