The groups convened by the CGT, the CTA, and other trade union spaces and social movements deconcentrated this afternoon around 4:00 p.m. after passing through the National Congress, where they arrived from the Obelisk, within the framework of a mass demonstration against “price makers and speculation”.
The columns of protesters had left at 2:30 p.m. from the intersection of 9 de Julio and Avenida de Mayo with a flag that crossed the street with the motto “Homeland First”supported by the co-secretaries general of the CGT Héctor Daer, Carlos Acuña and Pablo Moyano and other leaders such as Omar Plaini and Sergio Romero, among others.
After approximately an hour of marching, leaders, activists and workers arrived near the Congress of the Nation and shortly after the columns began to lose concentration, while the main references of the CGT went to the headquarters of the Union of Employees of the Justice of the Nation (UEJN), in Perón and Callao, to offer a press conference.
Although it caused logical inconveniences in the center of the city of Buenos Aires, the demonstration of the CGT and the CTA took place in a peaceful manner, controlled by the police and by the union organizations themselves.
Acuña told C5N that “the expectation is that employers understand that they cannot continue to stress” and pointed out that in terms of wages “everyone has to discuss according to the conditions in their sector.”
“The expectation is that employers understand that they cannot continue to stress”Carloa Acuna
Moyano, for his part, maintained to that medium that the march “is a clear message to repudiate, denounce price generators and speculators” and “to tell the President that we continue to bank him, but that he put in whatever he has to put in to put a stop to these guys.”
“And then surely in the next meetings we are going to ask that the parity be free, that a bonus be given to workers who do not make it to the end of the month and that the Universal Child Allowance be universalized for all registered workers.”
Protesters they had congregated since before noon in the area of the Obelisk and at 13:30 several union groups, including Luz y Fuerza, began to march slowly down Avenida de Mayo towards Congress.
Daer, in a message published on his Twitter social network account, which accompanies a photo in which the leader can be seen at the head of his union’s column, had stated this midday: “Together with my colleagues from Health we are already in the Obelisk, to meet compañerxs of sister organizations that are members of CGT”.
“Today we take to the streets in defense of our salary and our rights. Only united can we face the crisis,” Daer remarked.
Together with my colleagues from Health, we are already in the Obelisk, to meet with colleagues from sister organizations that are members of #CGT
Today we take to the streets in defense of our salary and our rights. Only united can we face the crisis#FirstTheHomeland pic.twitter.com/K0z73tS0Qq
— Hector Daer (@hectordaer) August 17, 2022
After noon, in the vicinity of the Obelisk, a stage began to be set up at the intersection of 9 de Julio and Cerrito, and rows of unions from the UDA, UPCN, OSN and the Federation of Municipalities were located there.
Social movements also marked their presence in the Obelisk with columns from UTEP, Somos Barrios de Pie, Movimiento Evita, the Popular Front Darío Santillán, Corriente Clasista y Combativa, Liberación Popular and La Dignidad.
“It is a march that represents the unity of the labor movement that wants to intervene in the distributive bid. The macroeconomy has to close with the workers inside and that is why we have to put a limit on the concentrated sectors,” the secretary of We are Barrios de Pie, Daniel Menéndez in statements to Télam.
Meanwhile, at the intersection of 9 de Julio and Belgrano avenues, columns from the Truckers, Smata, Textiles, Oil, UTA, Taxi Drivers and Naval unions demonstrated with drums, flags, parades and hot air balloons.
At the intersection of San Juan and 9 de Julio avenues, social movements and sectors belonging to the Evita Movement and Somos Barrios de Pie were concentrated, and columns from other groups continued to arrive at that place from Constitución.
The concentrations started around 9:30, when workers from the Truckers Union met on 9 de Julio Avenue, at the height of San Juan Avenue, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Constitución, where traffic was already interrupted.
In addition, a operation with the presence of members of the Federal Police and the City of Buenos Aires.
“We are in the streets to face the blow of the price makers, the financial sectors and the IMF and supporting the Government of Alberto Fernández“, social leader Luis D’Elía told Télam.
The march called by the workers’ unions with the slogan “First is the Homeland” will begin at 3:00 p.m. and will culminate with the reading of “a political document.”
“The challenge that it convenes today is the collective construction of a solid and prolonged platform of National Agreement, with broad consensus, on short, medium and long-term State policies, for which it is essential to avoid slogans that are empty of content or political exercises that point only to the situation“, affirmed the CGT on Tuesday in a text signed by the co-owners Héctor Daer, Carlos Acuña and Pablo Moyano.
In this framework, he pointed out that the country demands “firm commitments to mitigate the social injustice that is suffocating today,” and emphasized that the march will challenge all political actors with representative responsibility to commit to the common destiny.
“These political actors must abandon the petty electoral confrontation for the benefit of individual interests. Inflation reached intolerable levels that pulverize the purchasing power of workers and, much of the responsibility, depends on sectors that appropriated profits in times of losses for workers,” warned the CGT.
Within the framework of the mobilization, the Trade Union Front for the National Model (Fresimona) gathered from 12 noon on Avenida Belgrano and Avenida 9 de Julio; in the same way that the CTA unions did in San Juan and 9 de Julio and, around 1:00 p.m., the social movements and the Miles party began to meet in 9 de Julio and Avenida de Mayo.
Bankers carry out a work stoppage to join the CGT march
The Banking Association conducts a cessation of tasks from 11 for that personnel to mobilize together with the CGT to Congress to denounce “the economic-financial corporations.”
A document signed by the general secretary of the entity and deputy of the Front of All (FdT), Sergio Palazzo, and the union’s press secretary, Claudio Bustelo, stated that the bankers will denounce with the CGT “the intolerable action of the economic corporations -financial that threaten the food rights of millions of Argentines and the process of reactivating the productive economy.
“Banks will mobilize massively with the same conviction as always and together with the CGT to denounce the economic-financial corporations. “It is necessary to recover the national economy with inclusion and social justice and with full validity of labor rights and social security,” he said. The leaders maintained that “it will go away against those who attempt against the present, those who promote market coups with speculation with the dollar and in defense of income and the purchasing power of wages.”
“Strong and massive”
The national deputy for the Front of All (FdT) and general secretary of the CTA, Hugo Yasky, anticipated the massiveness of the mobilization to “denounce the speculative sectors of the economy” that “are the ones that provoke attacks on food prices.”
“Today, the organizations that make up the country’s trade union centrals are going to demonstrate in a forceful and massive way the decision of the workers of our country to confront and denounce those who are trying to destabilize the government elected by the people,” Yasky announced. , in statements to Télam.
The trade union representative stressed that “all the parties that make up the FdT have also decided to call the march” and expressed: “We are going to denounce and demand the cessation of all that has been the activity of sectors that made speculative attacks and that are also attacks by price makers.”
“The workers are going to bank the fight against those who mark prices”
The deputy secretary of the truckers’ union, Pablo Moyano, This Wednesday he asked President Alberto Fernández to take measures against inflation and assured that the workers “are going to bank” the fight against the businessmen who “remark prices”.
Moyano, speaking from a stage set up on the corner of Belgrano and 9 de Julio avenues during the mobilization carried out by the CGT through downtown Buenos Aires, pointed out the businessmen grouped in AEA (Argentine Business Association).
“I’m talking about the businessmen grouped in the AEA, where there are those who highlight prices, the media, the association of banks, who today want to lead an institutional coup,” accused Moyano.
Pablo Moyano assured that the workers “are going to bank” the fight against those who mark prices
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The leader added that these sectors “want to carry out an institutional coup and We have come to denounce this gang of criminals who attack the government every day.”
In this sense, addressing President Alberto Fernández, Pablo Moyano assured: “Put what you have to put, apply the fines (to these businessmen) that the workers are going to charge you, we cannot continue with this level of inflation.”
Likewise, Moiano asked the national government to grant a bonus “for colleagues who do not make ends meet”.
“We are going to take to the streets as many times as necessary to defend the government, but also to denounce these sons of bitches who take a plate of food from Argentines,” concluded the union leader.
The left marches to Plaza de Mayo
The social organizations of the left and the parties and union organizations of the sector called for a day of alternative struggle against “the adjustment and in support of the struggles”, for which they will not go to Congress but to the Plaza de Mayo starting at 5:30 p.m. .
In this context, the Ademys teachers’ union carries out a strike from 0 o’clock, with an open radio in front of the headquarters of the Buenos Aires Ministry of Education, located at 255 Paseo Colón avenue in the San Telmo neighborhood.
The force measure is a continuation of the fight plan initiated last week by the Confederation of Education Workers of the Argentine Republic (Ctera) demanding “reopening of the parity and an immediate salary increase for active and retired”. Ademys also rejects what they define as “regressive labor and educational reforms; the emptying of the Obsba; Irregularities and sanctions in public acts; and the extension of the school day.”
