The PIT-CNT resolved that the act for the May 1when Workers’ Day is commemorated, will be in person after the declaration of national emergency was lifted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, after two years.
The slogan of this year’s event, which falls on Sunday, will be “For the unity of those who move the wheel”, and they will call for the fight “against famine and poverty, for employment, for wages and in defense of social security”, as the thematic axes say.
There will be speeches by the president of the PIT-CNT, Marcelo Abdala, who will speak at the close of the call after the general secretary, Elbia Pereira, and the secretary of Human Rights, Fernando Aguirre, who is also president of the Single Gastronomic Union, give their messages. and Hotelier of Uruguay.
The secretary of the Presidency of the Republic and leader of the National Party, Álvaro Delgado, who accepted the invitation confirming his attendance, will also be present. “I’m going. As usual. Like more than a decade ago, being a deputy, being an opposition senator. I always went and now, being a government, I don’t have to stop going,” said Delgado.
For his part, the Minister of Labor and Social Security, Pablo Mieres, announced that on that same date the government will give a press conference to “make its message known to the workers accordingly.”
Starting at 9 in the morning, caravans will depart from different neighborhoods in the metropolitan area, and delegations will come from all the other departments, as usual.
