The Minister of Labor and Social Security, Pablo Mieres, pointed out that the analysis carried out by the PIT-CNT in the act of may 1 “It is not in line with reality” and that he “totally disagrees” with the fact that the government is installing “a model of inequality”, as expressed by the president of the union, Marcelo Abdala.
“We totally disagree with that, the numbers do not indicate that, on the contrary. The same as describing a social security reform as fiscal adjustment, which is precisely seeking to prevent the resources of Uruguayans from going more and more towards retirement and pensionsto allow them to be used in other priorities, such as reducing child poverty,” said Mieres this Monday at a press conference when the act ended.
“I think there is a major analysis error in the trade union center, but this is democracy, it is pluralism, and you have to be, pBecause the worst thing we can do to Uruguay is break the communication routes. So we listen totally reassured, but knowing that an analysis of reality is being expressed that is not in line with reality,” she added.
Mieres was one of the government hierarchs who was present at the act carried out by the PIT-CNT, together with the Secretary of the Presidency, Álvaro Delgado.
Delgado: “It seems that in Uruguay there was no pandemic”
The Secretary of the Presidency, Álvaro Delgado, also criticized part of the PIT-CNT’s speech and defended the government’s actions during these years. “The government is working on investments to generate employment, and in sight It is that all the jobs that were lost in the pandemic were recovered, which was the great absence of today’s speeches, it seems that in Uruguay there was no pandemic, which conditioned the world and also Uruguay. And we not only recover them, but there are 40,000 more jobs“He said this Monday at a press conference.
“Obviously we do not agree with a much more ideological part of the discourse, where capitalism, Yankee imperialism, private property were criticized. We are going to try to build on the points where we can agree, the rest has a lot of ideology“, asserted the hierarch.
“Part of knowing how to listen, still not agreeing, is the most important basis for any instance of dialogue. Still not agreeing with many of the things that were said here, but coming to listen seems to me an act of respect and tolerance,” he said.
