Abdala’s reasons for Tuesday’s strike: “Cutting rights” and “hidden adjustment”
The president of the Pit-Cnt, Marcelo Abdala, affirmed that the 24-hour general strike defined for this Tuesday is in rejection of a “retirement reform to cut rights” and that, according to what he affirmed, implies “a concealed fiscal adjustment.” The union leader also referred to the government project as “a collage” and “a cut and paste of proposals of all kinds.”
“It is a reform that was born criticizing an alleged deficit in the Banco de Previsión Social (BPS) and in other institutions but, nevertheless, instead of improving financing, it ends up cutting rights,” Abdala said at a press conference held in the headquarters of the Pit-Cnt.
“As long as you have to retire with more years, and therefore you have to work more years, and also in many cases to earn less, it is a reform that implies a hidden fiscal adjustment because it reduces rights. We are against it,” he added.
The president of the Pit-Cnt said that a reform must be carried out “but of a different type”. “We are in a radical change in the world of work in which the type of reform, instead of lengthening the working years, should even shorten them”, he affirmed.
The PIT-CNT called for this Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. an act together with the Intersocial in front of the Legislative Palace, while the Chamber of Deputies debates the social security reform project.
“The different organizations will be trying to find out how we can develop, first of all, a protest that is very forceful from the point of view of the paralysis. This is a protest demonstration. And at the same time an act that can show our protest against a law of this type”, said Abdala.
