The PIT-CNT will ask to meet with the Minister of Labor, Pablo Mieres, and with President Luis Lacalle Pou, as resolved by its Executive Secretariat after their meeting on Tuesday, in which it considered as “absolutely insufficient” the approach of the Executive Power regarding inflation and salary. “It does not address the situation of thousands of unemployed people or people dependent on the informal economy, who are experiencing a distressing reality”said the workers’ union in a statement.
The Lacalle Pou conference salary announcement this Monday “It is a question unilateral of the government” and “talks about the differences around the quality of democracy between the PIT-CNT and the Executive Power, he considered. And he criticized that the government “does not establish anything about the constant increase in prices, in progress”.
He warned that, “unless, from eventual conversations with the Executive Power, things are clarifiedthe proposal does not cover the loss of wages and pensions that have been observed for a long time”. In addition, he claimed that “nothing is proposed for the sectors of microentrepreneurs linked to industry, small agricultural production and trade in neighborhoods that also suffer firsthand the costs of rising inflation.”
However – stated the PIT-CNT – “the profits of the powerful sectorswhich transfer the international prices of raw materials to the prices of the domestic market, holding hostage people who cannot make ends meet with their meager income”.
On the other hand, the PIT-CNT convened “an active union leadership of the affiliates” to exchange on work, salary and famine. It will be next Monday, at noon in the complex of the Single Telecommunications Union (Sutel).
