In the middle of the act May 1st of the Trade Union and Union Confederation of Uruguay (CSGU), the organization made up of unions that have split from the PIT-CNT, and in which it was announced that signatures will be gathered to submit the social security reform to a plebiscite, one of the speeches strayed from that axis and pointed directly against the sports journalist of Punto Penal and host of Sports Hour, Sandra Rodríguez.
“Let him dedicate himself to something else,” said the general secretary of the Union of Private Security Workers (STSP), Juan Amaro, in the middle of his speech, referring to the fact that Rodríguez, apart from his work in the media, is manager of G4S Secure Solutions, one of the main private security companies.
“I want to address Mrs. sandra rodriguezI don’t know if you know her or have heard soccer reports. That lady is the general manager of G4S. She claims to be a manager, who knows everything that she promises us things. It’s a screen, don’t believe that. We need support and she doesn’t give us clothes, she doesn’t give us shoes, we work with shoes and old clothes, once I went to work and my shoes disintegrated“Amaro said.
“We ask them to give us work clothes and they turn a deaf ear. The lady would have to dedicate herself only to soccernot as a representative of security guards,” he continued.
“We charge $30,000 and we keep $26,000, security pays badly, it pays very badly because we are risking our lives, armed or not armed. They kill us or hurt us and We do not have insurance that the company would have to give it“, he asserted.
Plebiscite against the social security reform and elimination of the AFAP
The act of the CSGU, which unlike the central act of the Pit-Cnt, summoned around 80 people on the esplanade of the Municipality of Montevideo, had different speakers belonging to the unions that are not part of the PIT-CNT. Most of the speeches aimed to start collecting signatures to repeal the social security reform and that in that plebiscite also submit to the elimination of the AFAP.
“We are in favor of the fact that if a worker works 30 years he has the right to retire, if he is 60 years old he has the right to retire. The AFAPs keep our money and what they do is defund the BPS and social benefits are all cut. Let’s go to go out and gather signatures in a plebiscite. We are going to give all our strength,” said Damián Ortiz, Secretary of Organization of the Workers Union of postcards.
Martin Prato
One of the claims of the CSGU
“We believe in the unity of those who fight, of those who fight. Let’s go for a society without exploited or exploiters. We believe in the worker as a class. Unity is how what is happening in France, that no matter what organization you are in, they push forward. We believe in it. In unity without giving up, in fighting as clear objectives. That is why you have to go out and talk to your colleagues to explain that we are not against the reform but in favor of the workers“added being applauded by the people who were there.
Another of those who spoke was Daniel Machado, president of the postal union, and he expressed himself in the same vein. “What needs to be discussed is how we face them and defeat them, so that they don’t come to say that we are radical, utopian and idealistic. For the union confederation, we have to face this without hesitation or conciliation. It is not with lukewarm cloths that we can twist our hands with to the government. The way to defeat them is a plebiscite and now. Yes to the plebiscite and now!“, he asserted.
Martin Prato
The CSGU carried out its act
The CSGU was formed in 2019 and currently has as member unions the Coordinator of Retirees and Pensioners of Uruguay, the Railway Union of Uruguay, the Union of the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining and the Union of Education Workers.
Martin Prato
The event took place at the Municipality of Montevideo
In turn, it is also made up of the Transport Workers Union, the Private Security Workers Union, the Mechanical, Transport and Related Industry Union and the Secom Workers Union.
