The Representative Table of the PIT-CNT voted unanimously for the return of Marcelo Abdala to the presidency of the union central this Thursday, after crashing drunk in February, an accident due to who had to serve a sentence of community service.
“We are fully reincorporated into union activity”Abdala valued at a press conference, and explained that the support for his return is due to the “very strict compliance” of what was imposed by the Judiciary for the accident “personal resolutions” you took during your period. “We end this bitter trance”he added.
In the meeting of the Representative Board, the planning of the International Workers’ Day, May 1, with the traditional march organized by the union as the main point. This year’s will be held by Libertador Avenue to the Legislative Palaceand Abdala assured that it will be “historical”.
The president of the trade union central explained that three mobilizations that will then gather at the main point of the marchwhich will culminate in May 1st Squareand wait for an act massive. There will be three speakers: Abdala, the Secretary of Human Rights of the PIT-CNT, Fernanda Aguirre, and the Secretary General, Elbia Pereira.
better than starting point
The Trade Union Representative Table made an assessment of what was the referendum campaign on the 135 articles of the LUC, which culminated in defeat for the trade union movement and the Broad Front in their attempt to repeal the articles.
Abdala remarked that despite having lost there is a positive balance by the trade union movement: “If one compares state of mind and its organizations, a level of unity and common action, of organization, the point that we find today is absolutely superior to the starting point”remarked the president of the PIT-CNT.
According to the trade unionist, this was due to “a democratic initiative of the trade union movement”that by questioning the articles “he chose a democratic methodology to talk to the people” to first “get their signatures”, and then “conquer the adherence of almost half of the population for the Yes” to the repeal.
Trip to Geneva and Cuba
The PIT-CNT will participate in the International Labor Conferenceorganized in Geneva, Switzerland, by the World Labor Organization (ILO), from May 27 to June 11, 2022. At the Bureau meeting, Jorge Bermudezinternational secretary of the central and president of the Uruguayan Federation of Health (FUS), informed the general secretary, Elbia Pereira, to The Observer.
Pereira added that The National Federation of Secondary Education Teachers (Fenapes) will also travel to Geneva due to the complaint presented to the ILO for union persecution, framed in the case of union hours. The general secretary indicated that the union supports this motion, but that Fenapes will not be part of the PIT-CNT delegationfor which they invited a representative.
What’s more, the trade union center will travel to Cuba on May 1with his vice president Joseph Lawrence Lopez as representative. Pereira explained that for this event an exchange is carried out, since a trade unionist from the island comes to Uruguay while López goes to Cuba. Pereira clarified that neither of the two activities implies costs for the PIT-CNT
