The government, the CGT and the UIA agreed today to institutionalize a tripartite working table to take “measures and coordinate actions that allow us to deal more effectively with the problem of inflation, particularly with regard to access to basic goods and services.” .
The announcement was made tonight after the meeting in which the Ministers of Economy, Labor and Productive Development, Martín Guzmán, Claudio Moroni and Matías Kulfas participated.
Also present were the president of the UIA, Daniel Funes de Rioja, the entity’s secretary, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, and the Executive Director Diego Coatz; while representing the trade union sector, the general secretaries of the CGT, Héctor Daer and Carlos Acuña, and the deputy general secretary of the entity, Andrés Rodríguez, attended.
The meeting took place after a call made by President Alberto Fernández to establish a table for dialogue and social agreement, which tends to strengthen the economic reactivation in an articulated manner with the creation of jobs and the improvement in the real income of the population.
The objective of the meeting was to share the points of agreement between the sectors on the need to deal with the sudden increase in prices and its effects on the purchasing power of the population, as well as on the general functioning of the economy, and advance in a of future meetings that involve more actors to bring proposals and solutions to this problem, according to the document endorsed tonight by ministers, businessmen and trade unionists.
“The parties may propose temporary and structural measures to improve the country’s productive situation, promoting more public and private investment, with more competitiveness and exports, as well as the generation of productive and formal work,” the document states, among other points.
