During the central act for the International Workers’ Day this Sunday, May 1, a woman took the podium, after the speech of the general secretary of the PIT-CNT, Elbia Pereira.
Unexpectedly, the woman took the microphone and clarified that her presence there was out of protocol. Before the astonished look of many of those present, the woman introduced herself as Andrea Colombo, she said that she was the mother of Martina, a 23-year-old girl who died on January 7 when she worked at a Salto wind farm. As it turned out, the car she was driving overturned on a local road.
The woman denounced that her daughter “died working for a multinational company because they did not take care of her, because the working conditions were not the ones that corresponded.”
She also questioned that the PIT-CNT did not treat her as they should have treated her and asked: “Now, who will return my daughter to me?”
After the woman’s complaint, the president of the PIT-CNT, Marcelo Abdala, assured that they will contact Colombo to make the legal advice of the union available to the family, in a lawsuit against the company.
administrative investigation
For its part, this Monday, May 2, the General Labor Inspectorate of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security announced that it had launched an administrative investigation, following the public complaint made by the mother of the young woman who died at a time when she was working in an international company.
Likewise, it was indicated that there was no formal complaint and that the Secretary of State had no knowledge of the situation prior to the act of the trade union.
