Simultaneously, the PIT CNT called a press conference today where its president Marcelo Abdala confirmed that they will propose a partial general strike for November 16 to reject the project as articulated by the Executive Branch.
The leader denied that it was a social security project, affirming that it is a motorized pension reform because they do not know what to do with the deficit, emphasizing that “it is a project that does not touch absolutely anything that has to do with financing, It does not touch anything to the great wealth of the country¨.
Abdala exemplified his sayings by warning that the worker’s contribution doubles the employer’s contribution and that this is not fair, and that if there is a deficit, it should begin by analyzing that injustice. Another of the topics discussed at the press conference was the increase in the discretion of the Executive Power, reducing the social participation that today governs the Social Security Bank.
In this regard, the president of the PIT-CNT said that there are fifty articles in the project that strengthen the Executive Power to make decisions without consultation on the subject, in clear violation of the provisions of the International Labor Organization. Later he focused his batteries against the two pillars of the “Saldain project”: the increase of the years of work and the reduction of pensions.
To the Referring to this issue, the union leader did not hesitate to accuse President Lacalle of ¨having lied to the population when he said that he was not going to raise the retirement age for workers¨, adding that the bill ¨says absolutely nothing about how improve family allowances, care for early childhood, care for disability, and nothing about gender equality and unemployment insurance among other omissions¨.
For his part, the president of the Broad Front, Fernando Pereira, announced today that they are going to oppose many of the bill’s articles, which they find “very worrying.”
And to complete this opposition panorama to the project, the leader of Cabildo Abierto, General Guido Manini Ríos, announced that in the parliamentary debate he is going to request seven modifications to its articles.
