This Friday there is chaos in the transit of the City of Buenos Aires due to marches and demonstrations called by picketers who are demanding, among other things, withdrawals from social plans.
social organizations Congregated in the Piquetera Unit, they blocked, at 10:00 in the morning, the intersection of 9 de Julio and Corrientes avenues in protest against the 160,000 casualties in the Potenciar Trabajo program, for which the march of the picketers affects traffic in the Obelisk area.
“There is an adjustment underway, which does not stop. That is why it is necessary to confront it, with the whole of the working class, in the streets and with common actions of struggle.” indicated the picketers through a press release.
While the movements insist on protesting against the government’s adjustment plan, the Minister of Social Development Victoria Tolosa Paz described their measure of force as “extortive”, which fueled the tension between the parties.
“Complaints against the Piquetera Unit and the Polo Obrero are raining for extortion, charging social quota to camp, requesting substitutes to march, compliance with the march as consideration,” said the minister.
In addition to the mobilizations in the Buenos Aires microcenter, there are also cuts in the Pueyrredón Bridge, which connects the Federal Capital with Avellaneda. There, protesters from Polo Obrero advance along Miter Avenue and make it impossible for vehicles to climb the bridge.
While the Piquetera Unit is expected to hold a press conference at the Obelisk, The social organizations also announced that they will continue with their fight plan next Fridaywhen new mobilizations will take place in the City.
More mobilizations
Parallel to the protest of social organizationsthe Independent Movement of Retirees and Pensioners of the Classist and Combative Current carries out a march in the vicinity of the Obelisk, for a “genuine” increase for retirees.
Additionally, the Buenos Aires public health workers grouped in the ATE, held a day of protest in front of the Durand Hospital, to demand that the head of the Buenos Aires Government Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and the Minister of Health Fernán Quirós “stop emptying public health” and to claim for the “installation of refrigeration in hospitalization rooms and operating rooms, and the opening of the mental health service.”
